Quotes About Boundaries

What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.

Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.

I'd decided to write him and tell him to leave me alone. Please, in a nice way, go away, I really can't deal with you.

Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.

The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.

Excess of everything is worst

It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.

Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries.

And yet, if we are ever again to have a world fit and pleasant for little children, we are surely going to have to draw the line where it is not easily drawn. We are going to have to learn to give up things that we have learned (in only few years, after all) to 'need.

he patiently tolerated as much of him as he thought tolerable. The rest he ignored.

Our minds were driven out of the old boundaries into the thought of absolute loss, absolute emptiness, in a world that seemed larger even than the sky that held it.

My shutting the door won't keep him from coming back. Your shutting the door will. Have you the courage to shut it? Are you fond enough of him not to stand in his light?

Frequently an enterprising individual would leave the family haven, adventure beyond the traditional boundaries, and by hard labor reclaim land from the forest, the jungle or the marsh; such land he guarded jealously as his own, and in the end society recognized his right, and another form of individual property began.

IV   The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels. V   If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man. VI   If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot. VII   The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite.

Thus class boundaries were also cultural boundaries and in a very real sense constituted health boundaries as well.

If you can bring nothing to this place but your carcass, keep out. (Dedication for a Plot of Ground)

O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.

There's folks you just don't need. You're better off without em. Your life is just a little better because they ain't in it.

each of God's beings, from the lowliest on up, is entitled to at least a few moments of genuine privacy.

La mayoría de la gente vive en un círculo muy restringido de sus posibilidades. Todos nosotros tenemos reservas de vida en las que ni siquiera soñamos.

classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don't look back, don't be each other's anchors, no nostalgia.