Quotes About Boundaries

Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.

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

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.

the boundaries separating science, nonscience, and pseudoscience are much fuzzier and more permeable than Popper (or, for that matter, most scientists) would have us believe. There is, in other words, no litmus test.

There must be concentric circles around us and boundaries. French hedonist philosopher Michel Onfray coined the word eumetry (the "good measure"): the right measure of safe distance that must be kept with "relational delinquents" in order to secure a life of pleasure.

The limits you set in your mind are the limits you set in your life.

There is not enough room in a marriage for three people.

There is no shame in not watching news. There is no shame in not going on Twitter. There is no shame in disconnecting.

No is a good word. It keeps you sane. In an age of overload, no is really yes. It is yes to having the space you need to live.

Don't say yes to things you wish you had the confidence to say no to.

As a species, we love to divide things up. We draw a straight line in a map between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans while the water remains oblivious.

Don't attach yourself to people, and try to feel as little as you possibly can for those you do meet. Because otherwise you will slowly lose your mind

You are not other people. You are you. You have no control over other people. You have no absolute control over what they think of the world or of politics or of you. You have no control over what harm they may have done. Even if the harm they have done is to you.

It's okay to let people find you. You don't have to spread yourself so thin you become invisible. You don't have to always be the person reaching out. You can sometimes allow yourself to be reached. As the great writer Anne Lamott puts it: "Lighthouses don't go running all over an island for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

Learn to say to no things that get in the way of life. And to say yes to the things that help you live.

we might have to stop thinking about what we will never be able to read and watch and say and do, and start to think of how to enjoy the world within our boundaries.

Don't attach yourself to people, and try to feel as little as you possibly can for those you do meet. Because otherwise you will slowly lose your mind .

Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends.

I'm not interested in. only or fame. I don't want to be on display like an animal in zoo.

It is better to let people down than to blow yourself up.

No one can make you feel bad about yourself without your consent.' Which meant that you can't control what people said about you, but you can control how you feel about what they said.

There is only one of us. And we are all smaller than an internet. To enjoy life, we might have to stop thinking about what we will never be able to read and watch and say and do, and start to think of how to enjoy the world within our boundaries. To live on a human scale. To focus on the few things we can do, rather than the millions of things we can't. To not crave parallel lives. To find a smaller mathematics. To be a proud and singular one. An indivisible prime.

And if you don't say no to the wrong things there will be no room in your life to say yes to the right things.