Quotes About Boundaries

I've always been of the mindset that you will be defined by the things you say 'no' to because it's so easy to say 'yes.'

My fellow band members don't discuss their loved ones, and I don't feel that just because I am gay, I should have to discuss mine!

I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.

I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.

That is how our marriage is working so well. My secret of happiness is keeping my contact to the minimum.

We enjoy our time with others, but we don't get lost in our interactions.

To love, in the true sense of the word, is to feel no discrimination. We should have the element of equanimity, so that we can love without boundaries. Equanimity is the absence of the three complexes—better, worse, and equal. We no longer discriminate. We are able to embrace everything and we no longer suffer. When there is love without discrimination, there is also an absence of suffering.

Love is not a kind of prison. True love gives us a lot of space.

I do not think there is that much difference between Christians and Buddhists. Most of the boundaries we have created between our two traditions are artificial. Truth has no boundaries. Our differences may be mostly differences in emphasis.

This body is not me; I am not caught in this body. I am life without boundaries. My nature is the nature of no birth and no death.

Parents can modify themselves, and reduce the number of behaviors that are unacceptable to them, by coming to see that their children are not their children, not extensions of themselves, but separate, unique. A child has the right to become what he is capable of becoming, no matter how different from the parent or the parent's blueprint for the child. This is his inalienable right.

It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.

Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none.

No average man will molest a woman by day or night, at home or abroad, unless she invites him. Until she says by a look Come on he is always afraid to, and if you never say it, or look it, he never comes.

You'd better go now; I don't think Miggs could manage again so soon, even if he is crazy, do you?

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

Cuando decimos que una cosa es infinita, significamos solamente que no somos capaces de abarcar los términos y límites de la cosa mencionada, con lo que no tenemos una concepción de la cosa, sino de nuestra propia incapacidad

Stay out of your adult children's family matters. Please note, parents, that your vision of the ideal lifestyle may be diametrically opposed to that of your adult son or daughter, as well as that of your son-in-law or daughter-in-law. Adult children resent interference from their parents. Let them run their own lives; ask permission even to give advice. Ask permission also when contemplating giving significant gifts to your children.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Lista este viaÈ›a. De jur-împrejurul marginilor ei scorojite se deschide pr?pastia.

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To allow oneself to be carried away By a multitude of conflicting concerns, To surrender to too many demands, ...To commit oneself to too many projects, To want to help everyone with everything Is to succumb to violence.

As a child, and since then too, I have always tended to resist any kind of a possessive affection on the part of any other human being—there has always been this profound instinct to keep clear, to keep free. And only with truly supernatural people have I ever felt really at my ease, really at peace.

Love, then, must be true to the ones we love and to ourselves, and also to its own laws. I cannot be true to myself if I pretend to have more in common than I actually have with someone whom I may like for a selfish and unworthy reason.