Quotes About Boundaries

What people have to say is none of my business. They all have their own issues that make them say and do whatever they need to do.

If you put fences around people, you get sheep.

I know my boundaries. I know the limits to the car.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

Never lend your car keys to someone you gave birth to.

If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.

Simplify; small is beautiful; cherish the living earth; bless the community where you live; think globally, act locally; watch your boundaries; choose what is handmade with love; don't eat food you don't like; don't be deprived of firelight; don't take anything seriously; and don't let people get you down." Ember

Clara, you ask too much. You are always asking for too much, even when you're not asking for anything.

The shires of England were unique, their boundaries lasting for more than a thousand years until the administrative reorganization of 1974.

Perhaps if I had been able to put things in plain language, it might have been plain that things between us were so damnably unequal, that I loved her as I would never love anyone else and that she loved me as a young woman might love a devoted brother, a trusted bodyguard, or a horse that never stumbles, never shies, but takes all fences willingly, and carries her safely across.

About her husband, i did actually enquire, but she held her private life so fucking tightly, like a tourist clutching a handbag on the A train,..

An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance, and nothing else. Any attempt by an employer to go beyond this is usurpation. It is an immoral as well as illegal intrusion of privacy.

Only because a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time.

Nature (and that includes us) is not made up of parts within wholes. It is made up of wholes within wholes. All boundaries, national boundaries included, are fundamentally arbitrary. We invent them and then, ironically, we find ourselves trapped within them. But

Self-confidence is being able to say to another, I am what I am, and as long as I am not physically harming you or your property, your not liking what I am is your problem.

In some women Elvis saw a replica of his mother. He rushed to them, wanting to be absorbed within their boundaries as completely as with his mother. His courting rituals reenacted his and Gladys's lethal dance of enmeshment. His heart, worn throbbing on his sleeve, still belonged to Mama.

It's hard knowing what to allow and what not to. It's hard to know how much discipline to apply. If you don't give enough, then the child runs wild, and the parents get the blame. If you keep too strict control, he doesn't develop naturally and he blames you for screwing him up.

Why [..] should the boundary of sacrosanct life match the boundary of our species?

Everyone has boundaries. If you find yourself doing something that makes you bitter, it is time to reconsider.

Nothing can remain immense if it can be measured.

The most effective nos are the least complicated. The more details you supply, the more likely the other person will challenge you or try to change your mind.

I can only make one person happy each day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good, either.

The sea defines us, connects us, separates us. Most of us experience only its edges, our available wilderness on a crowded island – it's why we call our coastal towns 'resorts', despite their air of decay.

Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.