Quotes About Boundaries

As G. K. Chesteron once wrote: "You can free things from alien or accidental laws of their own nature…. Do not go about…encouraging triangles to break out of the prison of their three sides. If a triangle breaks out of its three sides, its life comes to a lamentable end.

dreams are all that separates us from the machines

I've gotten to the point where I'm not even a little apologetic about this business of not eating stuff that's bad for me. No one else has to live with my fat, work through my energy and mood swings, pay my doctor bills, fight my cravings, for face my family history of diabetes and cancer. If people insist, I can get a little testy.

One cannot be exploited or thwarted from nine to five, then come home and feel loving and lovable.

Attempts to take control violate the cardinal rule for providing a secure base: intervene only when asked to or when it is absolutely necessary.

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

You don't have to share everything with everybody. Not everyone must know about all parts of you—just the parts they need to know.

Lalla, exuberant, convinced her guru, the Siddha Shrikantha, to give her the teachings by defecating on an image of Shiva that was in the guru's house. When Shrikantha asked her the reason for this act, Lalla replied: "If Shiva is everywhere, he is also in the dirt of the dumping grounds where I usually go. If every place is sacred, why bother choosing?

"Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, because they don't."

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Love thy neighbor, just watch out for the husband

I've been in different countries, and a girl will come up and say, 'I love you. We are going to get married someday!' And I'm like, 'You're 11!'

You don't let go of a bad relationship because you stop caring about them. You let go because you start caring about yourself.

Let go of relationships that do not serve you. That means negative people, dishonest people, people who don't respect you, people who are overly critical and relationships that prevent you from growing. You can't grow as a person, if you don't have people in your life who want to grow with you.

If you allow people to make more withdrawls than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance and in the negative before you know it.

Burnout is about resentment. Preventing it is about knowing yourself well enough to know what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.

I don't want anyone part of my love life besides me and the person I'm loving.

Sometimes it takes leaving a toxic relationship to put yourself in a position to be in a healthy relation.

Don't ask why people keep hurting you. Ask yourself why you keep allowing it to happen.

Love is unconditional, relationships are not.

"I believe that two people are connected at the heart and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries if two people are destined to be together."

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you've probably already done something very, very wrong.

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.