Quotes About Boundaries

Actually, when you come to understand self-discipline you begin to understand the limits of freedom. You grasp the fact that freedom is never absolute, that it must always be contained within the framework of other people's freedom.

If asked, you should state how you feel, how you think. But until asked, it is an intrusion to thrust your ideas on any grown human being.

There is another ingredient of the maturing process that is almost as painful as accepting your own limitations and the knowledge of what you are unable to give. That is learning to accept what other people are unable to give you. You must learn not to demand the impossible or to be upset when you do not get it.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

It's only and always the two of us who are involved, she who wants me to give her what nature and circumstances kept, I who can't give what she demands; she who gets angry at my inadequacy and out of spite wants to reduce me to nothing, as she has done with herself, I who have written for months and months to give her a form whose boundaries won't dissolve, and defeat her, and calm her, and so in turn, calm myself.

As usual it seemed to her that she could enter and leave my life without any worries, as if we were still a single thing and there was no need to ask how are you, how are things, am I disturbing you.

That people, even more than things, lost their boundaries and overflowed into shapelesness is what most frightened her.

L'oscenità, concluse, non è estranea alla buona letteratura e l'arte vera del racconto, se pure passa il limite della decenza, non è mai scabrosa.

Reality can't stay inside the elegant moulds of art; it always spills over, indecorously.

For children parents are always a burden. But parents who draw too much attention to themselves are intolerable.

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

Why was it so hard not to glance through an open door, even when you didn't want to see inside?

Ask not the grass to give you green, and later walk all over it.

in regards to his mom and her new boyfriend] At least they never do it while I'm in the house, because that would make me quite literally barf my lentils.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

Planning is important. Your paper has limits: don't fence more land than you can plow.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.

But I had done for them what no one had ever tried to do for me. To say, to their hopes: No.

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.

A couple should never ever involve outsiders to resolve their marital problem and especially wife's mother called Mama in English and husband's maternal uncle called Mama in Hindi else both will ruin their married life.

A man's demonstration of self-respect is to never go down on knees before a woman and his self-protection is to stay away from a person who does or asks the people to do such demeaning, kneel down acts.

A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesn't deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesn't desire in all.