Quotes About Boundaries

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

Transcendentalists assert that the human mind is the same—and just as open to inspiration—across all boundaries of geography, culture, race, and religion. They celebrate the expansive, daring explorations of the Eastern mind, and find much wisdom in Hinduism and Buddhism.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door, and say, — 'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me, I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we call Fate.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it's wise to ask why it was put there in the first place.

All walls are not barriers. They may be there for a purpose.

Pleasure without boundaries produces a life without purpose. That is real pain. No death, no tragedy, no atrocity—nothing really matters. Life is sheer hollowness, with no purpose. In

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

Too much of anything isn't good for anyone.

The main motifs of the myths are the same, and they have always been the same. If you want to find your own mythology, the key is with what society do you associate? Every mythology has grown up in a certain society in a bounded field. Then they come into collision and relationship, and they amalgamate, and you get a more complex mythology.

Now brotherhood in most of the myths I know of is confined to a bounded community. In bounded communities, aggression is projected outward.

Let the earth and the sea each have its own.

You know what I always say—never let an asshole rent space in your head.

The third unskillful action, sexual misconduct

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural.

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

Book: [to Mal] If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other's air.

You cannot legislate music to lockstep nor can you legislate the spirit of the music to stop at political boundaries- -Or poetry, or art, or anything that is of value or matters in this world, and the next worlds. This is about getting to know each other

I'd like to be your friend—but only if you promise not to ever, ever count on me.

THANK YOU but please do not write again. And do not call. I have had enough of you.

Sleeping with another person is a responsibility, a trust: you must not intrude into the other's dreaming.