Quotes About Boundaries

I never said "I want to be alone." I only said,"I want to be left alone." There is all the difference.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

Don't give advice unless you're asked.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Sex, unlike justice, should not be seen to be done.

The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.

The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow.

Words will build no walls.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

Their issues are not your issues.

If It's Not Your Story To Tell,Don't Tell It...

We work together. That's it. So I want you to do us both a favor before you think I 'need' to know something. Ask yourself, 'If I were flipping burgers at McDonald's, would I be telling the fucking fry guy this?' If the answer is no, then shut the hell up.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

The problem comes in when you sacrifice your peace of mind and happiness for the sake of others.