Quotes About Boundaries

You don't have to go along when others act unfairly or unreasonably. If you do go along, make it clear that you are doing them a favor—and that you expect something in return.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." —GEORGE WASHINGTON

ask yourself if you're doing far more than your fair share, and if it's frustrating or exhausting you.

But other times, you'll discover that you're sticking with an irrational person simply because you don't want to feel like a bad person yourself.

If you're not too heavily invested in your relationship with a personality-disordered person, consider getting out.

Michel Foucault reminds us that in societies that organize massively to incarcerate its citizens "there is no outside" for anyone.

Why don't you just put the whole world in a bottle, Superman?

Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

If your imagination is superior to the rules, go beyond the rules.

My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

the rough boundaries of East and West Germany were effectively set where the various Allied armies stopped moving forward. The day the war ended,

Everything has its limit--iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

You can't eat your friends and have them too

Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?

I like to wear a "Do Not Disturb" sign around my neck so that little kids can't tell me knock-knock jokes. "Hey, how ya doin'? Knock-knock." "Read the sign, punk!"

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.

One cubic foot less of space and it would have constituted adultery.

We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy.' If something was horribly offensive and shocking we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.

Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave.

Jesus girls! Wake up! If a guy wants to drain you of your energy, emotions, and life force he won't sparkle in the sunshine, he'll just marry you.

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.