Quotes About Boundaries

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

It's never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?

... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.

we are not the vedantists, pauranics or tantrics. we are the 'don't touchists'. our religion is 'don't touch me, i am holy'. -vivekananda

Reason can go only to a certain extent, beyond that it cannot reach. The circle within which it runs is very very limited indeed. Yet at the same time, we find facts rush into this circle. Like the coming of comets certain things come into this circle; it is certain they come from outside the limit, although our reason cannot go beyond.

Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

B.O.B. and I have a longtime understanding - when we're done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn't me. Good night Gideon.

Cut off from the Mediterranean by the desert which he had no means of crossing, and bounded elsewhere by oceans which he had no skill in navigating, the black man vegetated in savage obscurity, his habitat being well named the "Dark Continent." Until

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Just because turtles dwell at your feet doesn't mean you should come down from your height and barter with, debate, or eat alongside them.

Social climbers are a bit like rats. You know you should avoid them, but, somehow one or two manage to sneak into your life anyhow.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

my gray zone is starting to include poetry here white is not absolute white black is not absolute black the edges of these non-colors adjoin

You can't force someone to respect you. But you can refuse to be disrespected.

Don't worry about people who don't worry about you.

Why are you touching me? Because I can.