Quotes About Boundaries

By the end of the week she was thinking constantly about where her body stopped and the air began about the exact point in space and time that was the difference between Maria and the other.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. You'll annoy the pig and lose your voice.

You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them.

The thing was, with parenting grown children, you had to learn to hold your tongue. If you wanted them to tell you anything, that is.

I have never belonged to a tribe. It gives me a different perspective. Perhaps if I did, I too would feel ill at ease in Les Marauds. But I have always been different. Perhaps that's why I find it easier to cross the narrow boundaries between one tribe and the next. To belong so often means to exclude; to think in terms of us and them - to little words that, juxtaposed, so often lead to conflict.

But I have always been different. Perhaps that's why I find it easier to cross the narrow boundaries between one tribe and the next. To belong so often means to exclude; to think in terms of us and them – two little words that, juxtaposed, so often lead to conflict.

To belong so often means to exclude;

You have to be careful who you meet. You can't unmeet them.

The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

It's the difference between dancing along the eggshell crust of acquaintance and diving into the messy center of a relationship. It's not always perfect; it's not always pleasant—but because it is rooted in respect, it is unshakable.

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

There are two ways of looking at walls. Either they are built to keep people you fear out or they are built to keep people you love in. Either way, you create a divide.

The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.

There are certain things I do not talk about.

Where is the line between keeping something private, and being dishonest?

I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.

The goal when you get into a relationship is not to be out of the relationship. It's to try to stay in the relationship. But if it doesn't work, you can't force those things.

I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day.

Every loss I took in life happened because I was looking out for ungrateful selfish people before myself.

Don't try to fu.. up my life just cause yours sucks. K thanks.

Nothing pissses me off more then when people tell me I'm a stranger, I clearly have a busy life. Sorry I cant text you 24/7.

The moment you stop thinking of whats going on with your partner is the moment you had enough.