Quotes About Boundaries

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

To give a man 5 sous because he is poor and has no bread is perfect, but to give him a blowjob because he has no girlfriend is too much of a good thing: you don't have to do that.

There is no Israel for me.

This evening, sprawled on the sofa, this animal with whom he shared one half of his genetic code had overstepped the unspoken boundaries of decent human conversation.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

Children raised by the I-Can't-Say-No parent often grow up too quickly, suffer from chronic boredom, think that rules don't apply to them, become poor money managers, are unable to cultivate healthy emotional boundaries with others, and have an unhealthy attachment to you in adulthood.

Despite spending a whole day on it, my end result read like every boilerplate in the handbook. What church didn't want a superb preacher with a lively intellect and a contagious sense of humor? Who didn't want a warm presence with a progressive social conscience, the management skills of a corporate CEO, and the work-life boundaries of a New Age life coach?

Do not assume a role you have not been given. In other words, don't do the things a wife does until you are a wife. Be a friend until he carries you over the threshold.

being involved with you requires a high cost, you will be able to sift the wrong people out of your life.

He's always asking: 'Is that new? I haven't seen that before.' It's like, Why don't you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.

Just to make things perfectly clear between us, you can have my peanut butter, but my bed is off-limits.

If I need something you can't give, I need to walk away, because sooner or later, all I'll see is what you can't give. I won't be able to see what you can.

It was an empowering thing, she thought, to be able to pick and choose what and whom she allowed in her life.

you teach men how to treat you.

To understand the precise point when the possible becomes the impossible, you have to appreciate and understand the laws of physics.

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

En el mundo —le dijo Mamá, y el cigarrillo se movía a compás de sus labios como si fuera un apéndice propio— hay personas absorbentes, que creen que sólo lo suyo merece respeto. Huye de ellas, Quico, como de la peste.

I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.

Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner

Cicero once wrote that to be completely free one must become a slave to a set of laws. In other words, accepting limitations is liberating.

When not preoccupied with our selves, we actually have a chance to expand the concept of who we are. Loss of self-consciousness can lead to self-transcendence, to a feeling that the boundaries of our being have been pushed forward.

Using this scheme, it can be said that games offer opportunities to go beyond the boundaries of ordinary experience in four different ways. In agonistic games, the participant must stretch her skills to meet the challenge provided by the skills of the opponents. The roots of the word "compete" are the Latin con petire, which meant "to seek together." What each person seeks is to actualize her potential, and this task is made easier when others force us to do our best.