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Quotes About Boundaries

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.
~ Julia Cameron
Uske itna bhi qareeb na ho jaao Ke aachank se dono durr ho jaao
~ Wajid Shaikh
Foe him, The Doors is the story of a young man who wants to break all the limits of life
~ Wallace Fowlie
There is one thing above all others that I despise. It is fingers, especially female fingers, messing around in my guts. My guts, like Victorian marriage, are private.
~ Wallace Stegner
I don't care how they speculate, or what their answers are. We live as we can, we do what we must, and not everything goes by either Freudian or Victorian patterns. What I am sure of is that friendship—not love, friendship—is as possible between women as between men, and that in either case it is often stronger for not having to cross sexual picket lines. Sexuality and mistrust often go together, and both are incompatible with amicitia.
~ Wallace Stegner
In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.
~ Wallace Stevens
Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
~ Walter Dean Myers
The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.
~ Walter Kirn
insistirá una y otra vez en que su sabiduría no es otra cosa que la conciencia de sus propios límites.
~ Walter Riso
Cuando digo no, me siento culpable.
~ Walter Riso
La cuerda cortada puede volver a anudarse, vuelve a aguantar, pero está cortada. Quizá volvamos a tropezar, pero allí donde me abandonaste no volverás a encontrarme. BERTOLT BRECHT
~ Walter Riso
De alguna manera, los individuos ventajosos y desconsiderados detectan a los mansos/dependientes, los desnudan en la relación cara a cara, los descubren en la mirada huidiza, en el tono de voz apagado, la postura tensa, los gestos conciliadores, los circunloquios, las disculpas y la amabilidad excesiva. Los ubican, los ponen en la mira y atacan. Insisto, la idea no es crear un estilo prevenido y dejar de creer en la humanidad, sino adoptar un actitud previsora.
~ Walter Riso
Apartar lo que sobra, desvincularse y decir adiós con la sabiduría de quien ha comprendido lo que no le conviene.
~ Walter Riso
Amar con reservas? Sí, con la firme convicción de que amarte no implica negociar mis principios.
~ Walter Riso
Por ejemplo, el valor de la perseverancia requiere un límite para que no se convierta en fanatismo: "aprender a perder".
~ Walter Riso
Significa que a pesar de lo que sentimos podemos comprender que el otro no nos conviene;
~ Walter Riso
Realmente, ¿nunca esperas nada a cambio de tu pareja, ni siquiera una mínima retribución? No seamos hipócritas. Si eres fiel, esperas fidelidad; si das sexo, esperas sexo; y si das ternura, no esperas un golpe. El mito del amor sin límites ha hecho que infinidad de personas establezcan relaciones totalmente dañinas e irracionales, en las que se promulga el culto al sacrificio y la abnegación sin fronteras.
~ Walter Riso
If economic power is centered outside national African boundaries, then political and military power in any real sense is also centered outside until, and unless, the masses of peasants and workers are mobilized to offer an alternative to the system of sham political independence. All
~ Walter Rodney
walk on the inside away from the curb / no public displays of affection / when you call, let the phone ring twice / hang up and then dial again
~ Wanda Coleman
I can't do any more than I can do, and if people don't like it that's no fault of mine.
~ Wayne Cordeiro
to pry too hard into somebody else's business,
~ Wayne D. Dundee
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
~ Wayne Dyer
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
~ Wayne Dyer
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
~ Wendell Phillips