Quotes About Boundaries

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.

The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new dimensions of life which our religious boundaries - creeds, atonement theologies - have kept us from experiencing.

We also need a fund that can say 'no'.

Build a fence around the South and you'd have one big madhouse.

Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852

His older brother once told him that if you found you were undressing the girl and yourself, take a break and ask yourself whether you're pushing too hard.

my best friend's problems, but I can't

Literature not only breaks the rules, but makes us realize that there are none.

Good authors worry about genres great authors don't.

To know a thing well, know its limits; Only when pushed beyond its tolerance will its true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

I should like friendship with you ... and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex.

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.

Duncan spoke quietly: 'Lucilla, if you touch me again without my permission, I will try to kill you. I will try so hard that you very likely will have to kill me.

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic. —T. Robbins

Don't be so sure you know where to draw the line," he said. "We carry our past with us. And, mother mine, there's a thing you don't know and should—we are Harkonnens." Her

To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen.

You must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside might not even exist.

Desire brings the participants together. Data sets the limits of their dialogue. Doubt frames the questions.

What do you mean—desire, data and doubt?" "Desire brings the participants together. Data set the limits of their dialogue. Doubt frames the questions.

The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist. —THE AZHAR BOOK; SHAMRA I:4

Do not give someone a stick with which to beat you.

You are never to let anybody slam the door in your face again.