Quotes About Boundaries

those with the habit of line-crossing as a mode of being would never and could never fit the requirements of any state narrative.

The good thing about books is that they remain themselves. What happens in their pages stays there. Harriet does not like the idea of the story bleeding through into real life. She trusts a story, and doesn't trust real life. But what makes her trust a story is the knowledge that it will stay where it is, that she can visit it but that there is no chance it will visit her.

It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be

Harriet didn't wish to see someone this passionate become a walking Druhástrana, cut off from the rest of the world.

affection by trying to make things happen for the others. This puts a Giver in the uncomfortable position of having to receive. It may feel like the Eight is dominating even

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

to have to check messages in the evenings,' says Alexander, 'which isn't good, as you never relax and recharge.

If anyone plays the martyr card, staying late or working too much, they're more likely to get a leaflet about efficiency or time management dropped on their desk than any sympathy.

It goes back to women's sensitivity to others and their desire to maintain connection at almost any cost. Often, women won't even ask at all. They'll "intuit" whether a request might cause somebody discomfort, hold themselves back from asking, and then secretly be angry at the person they haven't asked for not being willing to give it to them! In

My problem was that by this time the Colonel and I had already had thirty straight hours of Togetherness and I'm not equipped for it, not even with the best friend I have on earth, which he isn't.

No," she said again, just because it felt good to say no to this person

Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected...part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. Only when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect and even be grateful for the boundaries of others.

Drawing is putting a line round an idea.

Books are boring to read. You can't move around in them as you wish. You are asked to follow. The trail is traced, one way.

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

The oneness in Jesus Christ crosses all boundaries and separations. Anyone with the faith of Jesus Christ can immediately enjoy the innate oneness with another who has the faith of Jesus, regardless of differing political or doctrinal views."

Anthropologist Mary Douglas (1991) examines the very thin line separating a joke from an insult: a joke expresses something a community is ready to hear; an insult expresses something it doesn't want to consider.

Remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God as can be your own. Remember that He who has united you as human beings in the same flesh and blood has bound you by the law of mutual love… not limited by the boundaries of Christian civilization….34

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

You have to get away from them. You have to get as far away as you can otherwise they'll kill you with their lives. They don't know what they do. They are careless with themselves and they take too much for granted. They make their shortcomings your problem. The only way to keep your head above it and heal your wounds is to crawl away.

It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

Is it a shame that I can't accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else's world?