Quotes About Boundaries

Don't make friends with monks and soldiers.

Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.

You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough!

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.

I try to live without interfering in the lives of others because I have no wish for them to interfere in mine.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Their real freedom is not within the boundaries of security, but in the highroad of adventures, full of the risk of new experiences

The civilisation of the West has in it the spirit of the machine which must move; and to that blind movement human lives are offered as fuel, keeping up the steam-power. It represents the active aspect of inertia which has the appearance of freedom, but not its truth, and therefore gives rise to slavery both within its boundaries and outside.

The world into which I have tumbled is peopled with strange beings. They are always busy erecting walls and rules round themselves, and how careful they are with their curtains lest they should see! It is a wonder to me they have not made drab covers for flowering plants and put up a canopy to ward off the moon. If the next life is determined by the desires of this, then I should be reborn from our enshrouded planet into some free and open realm of joy.

I want to protect each person's boundaries. Once you begin to yield the slightest ground on some pretext, you're ultimately left with nothing.

She was, I saw, goading herself on: she wanted to Traverse boundaries, as though to prove to herself that she was free.

no longer interested in socialising; in fact, increasingly he found other people positively bewildering. The interesting ones are like islands, he said: you don't bump into them on the street or at a party, you have to know where they are and go to them by arrangement

Stay away from me so I don't feel anything for you anymore.

Exactly what am I supposed to care about? That we were just getting to the fun stuff? That my hand was on your breasts, and your hands were all over my chest, and both of us were having a good time? Damn right I care about that. I wasn't finished. But don't expect me to care that a little old lady looked in the window and watched. Why should I care what people are going to say about that? People have talked about me since the day I was born. I stopped caring a long time ago.

Ask me again why I don't want you traveling with the team." "Why?" He slid his thumb across her bottom lip. "Because you drive me insane.

I think someone just marked his territory.

The borderlands of madness used to have much sterner signage around them than they do now.

American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians.

I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages.

There is a fine line between sensuousness and vulgarity. I will not cross that line.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.