Quotes About Boundaries

no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness

sanity is really limiting.

You already have one asshole, you don't need another one

You can't fix people or make them change; the only thing you can do is pack your shit and leave if it isn't working for you.

You already have one asshole. You don't need another.

The only reason people compromise themselves is because they don't feel strongly enough about themselves and are looking for another person to fix it for them, either sexually or emotionally. That's why it is imperative that you get to a place where you like yourself, even if just for the added bonus of weeding out the creeps.

Hey—do you remember that movie when the girl waited around for the guy to ask her out, then made excuses when he didn't? Then she slept with him when they were both drunk, and basically just hung around until they were kind of dating? Then

Busy" is another word for "asshole.

A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up. He then called her, begging her forgiveness and giving some excuse. She told him to get lost, telling him that he only gets one shot with her, and he blew it.

It is always easier to sleep at night if the monsters outside your house only knock when you give them cause.

You don't get to be the decider of what is yours and what can't be someone else's experience.

Kindness can be a weakness, Grace. Please listen to me. Don't get me wrong. I don't want you to be harsh, uncaring. Not at all. I don't want you to be indifferent to the needs of others. I just don't want you to put anyone else above yourself.

Any created thing must, for example, possess a limited set of characteristics which rules out the possibility of it possessing other characteristics incompatible with these.

The physical laws are but the bars of a cage.

a man has to draw the line somewhere. Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

the promise to "forsake all others" includes all those entanglements, friendships, family-of-origin commitments, career opportunities, and community involvements that do not serve to increase either the physical and mental health of each spouse or the intimacy of the marriage.

Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.

Tell me to mind my own business, tell me to go fuck myself, to piss, off, go on, say it, but don't tell me nothing's wrong.

I don't think I will ever cross-contaminate my private life and my family life with my public and professional worlds.

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds.

Just because I make movies in the scary world doesn't mean I want to visit scary worlds.

In my entire life, I have ten people that are the closest people to me. They're my family, and I really don't mesh worlds that often.

Children exist in the worlds that adults create for them, both locally and globally, and their options are, by virtue of age, often painfully limited.