Quotes About Boundaries

And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

I feel like you should always be questioning the genre you're doing. If you're doing something that sounds like a lullaby, it can be good to make it about someone stalking someone.

I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

For Colin Firth: You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.

In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

We can ask for a dream of guidance on any issue that is facing us, and when we're lucky the dream can take us out of the boxes of the everyday mind's approach to that theme.

Don't ever put your happiness in someone else's hands. They'll drop it. They'll drop it every time.

Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.

You're not RESPONSIBLE for somebody else's happiness. You're responsible for your own HAPPINESS.

Rule 1: Be kind.Rule 2: Don't be a doormat when they step on you.Kindness and sticking up for yourself go hand in hand if you want happiness.

Don't let anyone infiltrate your happiness. Protect it as if it's all you have, because it literally is.

Never let people who are more unhappy than you tell you how to live your life.

Own your happiness and let people understand that they have to own theirs. If you make it your job to make people happy, you have made it your job to keep people happy.

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.

Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.

I am afraid for my health. I'm definitely burning the candle a little, at both ends, and I have to be careful about that.