Quotes About Boundaries

Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call "reality". However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?

Hannah] Arendt wrote about the subjugation of public space - in effect the disappearance of public space, which, by depriving a person of boundaries and agency, rendered him profoundly lonely.

Emily interrupted. Don, she said. would you mind going home? He pulled his soft hat violently down over his forehead. I suppose you think that I'm a cad. I just don't think about you. Good-by, Emily said, and closed the door firmly behind him.

New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.

For you, there is underage, and then, there is underage. I believe a taste of wine is perfectly acceptable, but please stick to one glass tonight. Now, let's work on ambiance.

People can't really sympathize with you properly when you've woken them up

I wish I'd remembered not to use it around other people, because it was kind of our word.

Hate it when I wake up to find that people have been creeping around me and have seen me asleep. Unfortunately, it happens to me a lot. I can sleep like a champion.

Didn't say we tell each other everything

What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me?

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. "I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others.

A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.

If you have something, then everyone will want a piece of it. So you have to draw the line somewhere. If everyone is family, no one is family. Your father, he never understood this, I think.

If everyone is family, then no one is family.

Goddamn it, Rahm, slow down—your ass is in my face!

I think we're people that needed boundaries.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be a good idea to separate from a chronically carping spouse, but it is not so easy to abandon the whiny toddler, the colicky infant, or the sullen teenager.

Purge everyone who "brings you down," and you risk being very lonely or, what is worse, cut off from reality.

I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations. And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful If not, it can't be helped.

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

It's safer knowing more about people than they know about you.

Those of us who give body and soul to projects that never seem to end- child rearing, housecleaning, gardening- know the value of the occasional closed door. We need our moments of declared truce.

You could allow a gentleman the privacy of his piss.