Quotes About Boundaries

Why does everything have to be put into boxes?" they say. & fair enough, up to a point. But this vigorous drive to divide, subdivide & label has been rather maligned. Such conceptual shuffling is inevitable, & a reasonable defence against what would otherwise face us as thoroughgoing chaos.

How could one not think of the stories we all grew up on, that surely the Ul Qomans grew up on too? Ul Qoman man and Bes? maid, meeting in the middle of Copula Hall, returning to their homes to realise that they live, grosstopically, next door to each other, spending their lives faithful and alone, rising at the same time, walking crosshatched streets close like a couple, each in their own city, never breaching, never quite touching, never speaking a word across the border.

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who tread on their toes.

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.

Limitations are but boundaries in our minds

If I hold her hand she says, 'Don't touch!' If I hold her foot she says 'Don't touch!' But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.

But isn't the use of a template or a checklist confining? Surely we're not arguing that a "color by numbers" approach will yield more creative work than a blank-canvas approach? Actually, yes, that's exactly what we're saying.

Something had happened as I lay in the field, watching the sky, an understanding that I couldn't control the lives of others—but neither could they control mine.

My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess.

If the heart chakra is overdeveloped and the solar plexus chakra is underdeveloped, there is a tendency that other people will take advantage of you, abuse and misuse you. If the solar plexus chakra is overactivated, there is a tendency to be too selfish, and maybe even ruthless. To become psychologically healthy, the development of the solar plexus chakra and heart chakra must be balanced.

You have to see everyone in relationship to you. Just because you understand the shit in someone else's life doesn't mean you don't stand up for your own.

Taking on someone else's monsters will kill you." He

You have to see everyone in relationship to you. Just because you understand the shit in someone else's life doesn't mean you don't stand up for your own

Study's good, because it microcosms everything—if you understand everything within the walls of what you study you can identify other walls too, other areas of study. Everything's separate and discrete and there is no macrocosm, really. When there are no walls there is no study, only chaos. And so you break it down.

in all of human history, three things never went out of style. Graffiti, keep-out signs, and statues of ourselves.

Understand this: the extent of your vision is the boundary of your blessing! In other words,

Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.

You know what a platonic friend is to a woman? It's like a dick in a glass case. In case of emergency break open glass.

Men don't have platonic friends, okay? We just have women we haven't fucked yet.

We were thought by generations before us an eye for an eye and to love those that love us, but what if I tell you that true love has no boundaries brothers, it comes with peace, no sorrow and with no regrets

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

That which must not, can not be.

rid myself of what was no longer serving me. I stood up for myself and my own worth. I declared that I deserved to be treated better, and that had to start in the only place I have any control over: how I treat myself. The fact that you are entitled to your hurt, grief, and defensiveness doesn't mean it's working for you.

my favorite chapter in Cheryl Richardson's book The Art of Extreme Self-Care (Hay House, 2009) is the one titled "Let Me Disappoint You.