Quotes About Boundaries

No means so. Even if, at first, you thought you meant yes. Even if, at first, it was your fault. Even if, at first, you made yourself available.

We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better.

You're in my personal space, so get out of it.

It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.

When you go into a room, you knock first. If you start asking people questions and they start tilting back in their chairs, it means they don't want to talk about it. It means if you look at something on their computer screens, they're likely to knock your brains out with a baseball bat.

No friend of my parents is a pervert. It's physiologically impossible.

Abandonment actually is quite facilitative at this stage. When Wanderers do not let another in, whether it is parent, lover, therapist, analyst, or teacher, it is important for that helper to pull away so that Wanderers can experience fully the aloneness they have created for their own growth. Otherwise, they will be diverted from recognizing their loneliness by fighting off the assaults of others against their walls.

Without missing a beat I continue to play our black Baldwin Acrosonic spinet piano and say, "Not now! Mommy and Daddy are working!" The girls get the message and withdraw.

I debate adding kisses, but don't. They might be misconstrued as something more than being friendly.

Sometimes I've been known to overshare and that gets you nowhere.

Warum wird das Spielerische, Leichte, Dynamische aus der Sexualität genommen, warum sind die Klangfarben, die Tonarten der Lust als so statisch, abgegrenzt, einseitig gedacht, warum sind die Modulationen verschwunden aus dem Denken über das Begehren?

It's about picking which baggage is worth carrying with you later, when you go into the real world, where people don't want to hear about body parts on the roads.

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I'm on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we're too old to be young.

If you knew what I went through to get into your home, that I messed up my back trying to know you, inside and out, you'd judge me for it.

Some guys are assholes and you have to accept that.

You gotta ignore people until they get in line.

in both bookstores and coffee shops, it's actually polite to leave browsers and readers alone. When you harass people and offer to help them too much, they feel like you're nudging them out the door.

And you didn't have to go out and get it. You didn't have to make eye contact with the guy at the store who now knows you like watching girls get spanked. Eye contact is what keeps us civilized.

You give it your all, Beck. You just have to be more careful about who you give it to.

I know when you need your space. That's why I got the beard.

It's a boundaries thing." You're pushing me away on our second date even though I'm Different. Hot. You're afraid of love and it's sad

Alas, we can't control other people. We can only control ourselves.

I understand that your attraction to me is so intense that you need to keep a safe distance

I wake up first. I go into your bathroom, into your tub and I piss all over the floor of the shower and mark my place, my home, you.