Quotes About Boundaries

Every mans dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

Marriage is like a fort, those who are in want out, those who are out want in.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are outside want to get in, and those inside want to get out

Sometimes dramatic people try to draw you into someone else's drama, and that never ends well. Interfering is like pulling on a dangerous dog's ears. Do it at your own peril.

When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives.

Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodigals-an ability to let them go-or we'll be perennially bound to others for our happiness and effective service.

This same Jesus, though, didn't say we had to be in relationship with everyone. We are not to 'throw [our] pearls to pigs.' (See Matthew 7:6.) He didn't deeply entrust his heart to Pharisees. You see him slipping through the throng of people bent on killing him. Often he withdrew from crowds in order to be with his Father. His is a story of connection with others, yes, but it's also a reminder that relationships don't come with an easy-to-understand blueprint.

When is a cell finally too small to hold our essence?

This life was a dream of my own making, one where my imagination was my only boundary. It was a life that I alone commanded.

Deceit knew no boundaries.

I grip his wrists and lift onto my toes, forever trying to get through the barriers of skin and bones and gravity and relativity, hoping to find answers by crawling inside of him and mending our everythings. Teller pushes back until I'm against the wall once more and all it would take is the tilt of my head for our lips to touch.

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.

Perhaps it is the intrusion of sexuality that marks the end of precision.

This look said I was uncomfortably near some line. Nikos had a lot of lines, all hidden. If you shot a marble in on one side of his personality, instead of coming out the other it would bounce on secret internal walls and shoot out in some unpredictable way. I suspected some of those ways were deadly.

Sometimes the best love is tough love.

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex—that's quite a thought, isn't it?

Grow up, Brett baby, I would share a lot of things with a lot of people, money, clothes, bed and board, even my last crust I'd be willing to share, but one thing I won't share is a man. You'd better believe it.

keep the constraints of the problem visible

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

Extroverts need to know that sitting too close, standing too near, touching when touch is unwanted, or walking into a private room unannounced will drive introverts nuts and drain their energy.

We are, by our very human nature, limited in what we can know or do or control or change.