Quotes About Boundaries

Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. The little group of citizens on the slab of rock gathered together instinctively, almost defensively, and everyone who was outside the walls—even if you'd once been best friends—was now just that, outsiders.

It wasn't easy to understand how the love between two other people could diminish you.

know you have other things to think about, other people who want your time, which I know you probably have to dole out really, really carefully, preserving yourself. Self-preservation is as important as generosity.

Because if you don't preserve yourself, keep enough for yourself, then of course you have nothing to give.

strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit

I think you should shut the fuck up," Eli said, throwing his bag down with a thud that made everyone on the lab look up. "I think it's time you do that." Stim looked at him carefully. Eyes darting between the two of them, A.J. seemed to be waiting for something, grinning a little. Stim shrugged. "Lise isn't your sister, Nash," he said. "They're not all your sisters.

All facade, all vacant, enjoyment without sustenance, celebration without boundaries or purpose.

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.

Feeling pressured into doing something I didn't want to do for people I didn't want to please.

care desperately in a perversely curious-about-your-sex-life way," Merrick said. "You never tell me anything about your personal life. You don't hit on me. You ignore me when I hit on you. You keep our work relationship professional no matter how hard I try to make it unprofessional. It's like you have integrity or something, and quite frankly, I'm sick of it.

What she did not yet realize was that those boundaries were much looser for a child in the progressive circles of Salem and Boston, where a young girl who "poured out her whole heart" would be kindly received by adults eager to see proof of the innocent wisdom of childhood. As she grew older, Elizabeth would have to reckon with the fact that others began to find that same forthright manner disturbing in a young woman.

That's what all love comes down to, doesn't it? We help others only as much as they let us.

We help others only as much as they let us.

A completely secure life can be found only outside the life!

Beyond the limits there lies other limits.

Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!

Don't live in the castles; freedom is in the fields! But I can also say: Don't live in the fields; security is in the castles!

For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.

Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.

Santangelo is irritated. "We're not suppose to be collaborating. It's supposed to be a war and you're supposed to stick to the boundaries." "We've seen you in your jocks," she reminds him. "Taylor and Griggs have pashed. You've broken into your father's police station for us. Don't you think the war has lost a bit of its tension?

Do you want to hang out? At your place or something?" Hanging out with Jimmy Hailler will mean that I have to say hello to him every day. I'm not ready to say hello to him every day. Too much commitment. It's bad enough that I'm sharing chocolate brownies swith him. I shake my head. "Not today.

I do keep him at the back of my mind for those times I get me hopes raised about something. So then I can slap myself into reality and remind myself of what happens when you let someone into your sacred space.