Quotes About Boundaries

So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.

Consider that the boundaries of your comfort zone are actually your core values.

If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots.

My consciousness expanded at an inconceivable speed and reached cosmic dimensions. I lost the connection with my everyday identity. There were no more boundaries or difference between me and the universe. I felt that my old personality was extinguished and that I ceased to exist. And I felt that by becoming nothing, I became everything.

And if, indeed, there is nothing beyond the corner? Who can affirm if beyond so-called 'reality' anything exists at all? Beyond a reality that I have probably created? As long as I'm steeped in this reality up to my neck, as long as it is sufficient for me—everything is tolerable. But what would happen if I wanted one day to lean out of my safe environment and glance beyond its borders?

For the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.

It is only the immeasurable, the limitless that terrifies us. That which is set within defined, fixed limits is a challenge to our powers, comes to be the measure of our strength.

Sabit fikirli, kafas?n? tek bir düÅŸünceye takm?? her türlü insan, yaÅŸam?m boyunca beni çekmiÅŸtir, çünkü bir insan kendini ne kadar s?n?rlarsa, öte yandan sonsuza o kadar yak?n olur; iÅŸte böyle görünüÅŸte dünyadan kopuk yaÅŸayanlar, özel yap?lar? içinde kar?nca gibi, dünyan?n tuhaf ve eÅŸi benzeri olmayan bir maketini kurarlar.

It is my opinion that you should lend yourself to others and give yourself only to yourself.

For the more a man limits himself, the more he is close to the infinite.

Einzig das Unmeßbare, das Unfaßbare erschreckt uns, alles Begrenzte dagegen, alles Bestimmte fordert zur Probe heraus und wird zum Maß unserer Kraft.

It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.

She had her own barometer for knowing when a man was getting too close: as soon as he felt comfortable enough to help himself to something in her refrigerator, he was history. ... Filching leftover was simply too domestic for her to stomach. A man might as well say, "I'm hungry and I'm taking your food, woman." First he'd be foraging for food in the fridge, next he'd be expecting her to cook for him, replace buttons on his shirt, and give up her job to have babies that looked like him.

Heterosexuals often fall into the trap of expecting all their emotional needs to be met by the other person.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. — RAY BRADBURY

What kind of man eats your fish when you won't sleep with him?

What's your plan to stay out of my bed?

The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries.

I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.

The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated.

I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.

To realize truth, you must cross all boundaries of all religions and all prophets

I feel more comfortable being honest because I don't have to "remember" my answers. You never forget the truth! I just have to learn how much truth to give, that's my boundary. That's my new thing.

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.