Quotes About Boundaries

You are not being badgered; you are being invaded.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

She resented the way in which he walked in and out of her mind as if it was his own flat.

Nobody minds coarseness, but one must draw the line at cruelty -Lord Peter Wimsey

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

That's right … we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty

You don't believe magic is possible in lives lived within traditional boundaries.

But that's what family members are for. We crave them and need them not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about but because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

Some day you cross this thin line and you really realize that we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.

Criticism is a profession which allows one a certain license to be vicious outside the bounds of normal civilized behavior.

Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed. This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don't go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.

Little liberties are great offenses.

Just for a moment I hated Lymstock and its narrow boundaries, and its gossiping whispering women.

Many children, most children, I should say, suffer from over-attention on the part of their parents. There is too much love, too much watching over the child.

Will you tell me exactly what it is that has upset you?" "Tell you that in two words, I can." (Here, I may say, she vastly underestimated.) "People coming snooping round here when my back's turned. Poking round. And what business of hers is it, how often the study is dusted or turned out? If you and the missus don't complain, it's nobody else's business. If I give satisfaction to you that's all that matters, I say.

I mind my own business and I expect other people to mind theirs. I don't listen to gossip and tittle-tattle.

Great mistake to say too much. Remember that. Never tell all you know — not even to the person you know best.

Aldrig mer kärlek. Enda utvägen: göra sig ogenomsläpplig. Man kan inte bara låta sig försvinna i ett slukhål. Man måste upprätta en demarkationslinje mot detta som är en sjukdom som får en att mista all kontroll.

Their relation was that of the sand and water, they touch, they meet, they flirt but they never mingle together.

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?

Every secret told, every declaration made, is a boundary crossed, a step taken into unknown country that can never be unstepped, never reversed, never erased.

FORGIVENESS MIGHT WORK in a monastery, I hear you say, but if we give that sort of forgiveness in real life, we'll be taken advantage of. People will walk all over us — they'll just think we're weak. I agree. Such forgiveness rarely works on its own. As the saying goes, "He who turns the other cheek, must visit the dentist twice, rather than once!

Pam: I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems. Maybe I smile too much. Maybe I wear too much pink. But please remember I can rip your throat out if I need to. And also know that I am not a hooker. That was a long, long time ago.

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.