Quotes About Boundaries

I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.

I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

The time for invisible boundaries that guard the 'purity' of gaming as a niche subculture is over. The violent macho power fantasy will no longer define what gaming is all about.

When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.

We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn't exist before.

There was a time when you would dream about, say, movie stars. Now, you virtually follow them into their bathroom when they're going to the loo.

I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Sometimes what seems like setting a boundary - saying no - is actually a cop out, an inverted way of saying yes. The challenge is to get past the fear and say yes.

that toughest of tough questions: What do I owe my parents, and what do they owe me?

Before diagnosing people with depression, make sure they're not surrounded by assholes"), his

The inability to say no is largely about approval-seeking—people imagine that if they say no, they won't be loved by others. The inability to say yes, however—to intimacy, a job opportunity, an alcohol program—is more about lack of trust in oneself.

The answer to an unasked question is always no,

A patient's boyfriend doesn't want to stop smoking pot and watching video games on weekends.

The inability to say no is largely about approval-seeking—people imagine that if they say no, they won't be loved by others.

Your misery doesn't change their situation. You can't lessen their misery by carrying it for them inside you. It doesn't work that way. There are ways for you to be a better mother to them at this point in all of your lives. Sentencing yourself to live in prison isn't one of them.

You can have compassion without forgiving.

Just because she sends you guilt doen't mean you have to accept delivery.

These were often the same people who later admitted that they also glanced at pinging phones during sex or while sitting on the toilet. Upon learning this, I placed a bottle of Purell in my office.)

anger serves another function—it pushes people away and keeps them from getting close enough to see you.

privacy (spaces in people's psyches that everyone needs in healthy relationships) and secrecy (which stems from shame and tends to be corrosive). Carl Jung called secrets