Quotes About Boundaries

You may go anywhere you wish in the castle, except where the doors are locked

Love has a modesty of its own, whose lines are boldly drawn, and whose rules are stern.

His gaze lowered to her mouth. I don't think you understand my limitations. You're not open to a relationship. Is that the limitation you're talking about? He nodded, but kept staring at her lips as though they were all he could really think about. Consider me warned, she said and slid her hand around his neck to bring his head down to hers.

How many times do you let someone hurt you in the same way, she asked him, before you become the asshole who keeps allowing it?

if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of this table we are going to set the maître d' on fire.

Artists—or, in the local parlance, creatives—should no longer push any envelope, go to the dark side, explore taboos, make inappropriate jokes or offer contrarian opinions. We could, but not if we wanted to feed our families.

Much as Hamlet famously declares, "I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space," each of the bubble universes appears to have finite spatial extent when examined from the outside, but infinite spatial extent when examined from the inside. And that's a marvelous realization

Absolute rules are for unthinking people. Sheep require fences—humans do not.

Here's the thing, everybody loves babies . . . but only in very, VERY small doses.

I have that feeling, which I have had often in Chile, that while human beings can make efforts to control, tame and use this place, clearing forests, marking boundaries, their influence here is only transitory.

Say no to anything that is not a high-value use of your time and your life.

Say no to anything that is not a high-value use of your time and your life. Say no graciously but firmly to avoid agreeing to something against your will. Say it early and say it often. Remember that you have no spare time. As we say, "Your dance card is full.

Una de las palabras más poderosas en la administración del tiempo es la palabra «No». Diga «no» a todo lo que no sea un uso de alto valor de su tiempo. Dígalo pronto y dígalo a menudo.

Trying to control other people and what they think is impossible. We can barely control what we think, how do we expect to control what others think? And

and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive

If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.

If you are living your life and I am mentally living your life, who is here living mine? We're both over there. Being mentally in your business keeps me from being present in my own. I am separate from myself, wondering why my life doesn't work.

When you stay out of your family's business, they notice that you have your stuff together and that you're happy, so they start to follow. You've taught them everything they know, and now they begin to learn again. And that's what happened with my children; they just don't see a lot of problems anymore, because in the presence of someone who doesn't have a problem, they can't hold on to one.

Every no I say is a yes to myself. It feels right to me. People don't have to guess what I want or don't want, and I don't need to pretend. When you're honest about your yeses and noes, it's easy to live a kind life. People come and go in my life when I tell the truth, and they would come and go if I didn't tell the truth. I have nothing to gain one way, and everything to gain the other way. I don't leave myself guessing or guilty.

Whose business are my children? Their business! When we're mentally out of our children's business, we have a shot at happiness, and so do they, because finally there's an example in the house.

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

Incarnation, the limitation of mind by matter, is an outrage to the imagination.

The minute you get engaged, you become public property.

The monute you get engaged, you become public property.