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Quotes About Boundaries

Trapped by reality, freed by imagination.
~ Nicolas Manetta
Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained.
~ Nicolas Manetta
I cannot get close to any you.
~ Unknown
Breaking some respected boundaries means a torrent of new life.
~ Nicole Mones
Dimensional Magic We are fractal. Our lungs, our circulatory system, our brains are like trees. They are fractal structures. Fractal geometry allows bounded curves of infinite length, and closed surfaces with an infinite area. It even allows curves with positive volume, and arbitrarily large groups of shapes with exactly the same boundary. This is exactly how our lungs manage to maximize their surface area.
~ Unknown
Best thing about friends: they know you inside and out. Worst thing about friends: They know you inside and out. My turtle shell is useless.
~ Nikki Grimes
Love is not me being who you want. Your definition is a whirlpool trying to suck me in and I'm drowning. Don't you see?...It's time...Time you stop telling me who to be, how to live. This is my portrait. You chose your canvas. Let me choose mine.
~ Nikki Grimes
Not without an army of ninjas behind me am I letting you into my house.
~ Unknown
Look, Candida, I don't want to pee on your picnic...
~ Unknown
You've got to learn to leave the table when love's no longer being served.
~ Nina Simone
being unable to initiate and maintain satisfying and enduring relationships; being unable to say no and stick to it; and other negative behaviors and attitudes with others as well as with the self-aborbed parent. Some try to work through their issues or concerns with mental health professionals, but find that it is just about impossible to adequately describe what their formative years were like.
~ Unknown
Catching others' feelings is why some people think that they have too much empathy; they are overly sensitive to others' feelings and as a result can feel taken over, manipulated, conned, and so on. Sufficient boundary strength permits you to be empathic without experiencing the negative effects. Until
~ Unknown
La capacidad de un hombre y una mujer para seguir formando pareja cuando están separados tiene un límite.
~ Noah Gordon
There are many, many different worlds to live in. And sometimes there is no connection from one to another.
~ Unknown
You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.
~ Nora Roberts
Noli me tangere; for Caesar's I am.
~ Unknown
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
~ Norman Douglas
first, in order to remember, something must be forgotten; second, the place where memories are stored has no boundaries. In other words, forgetting is a twin; its tandem effect is best called "simultancous" distraction, the instant when one memory defoliates another. This fuzzy double - one devouring the other - presumably inhibits learning
~ Unknown
In the end, the comprehensibility of phenomena rests upon faith and will. If I make a mystery of a manifestation, then it is a mystery for me. It is therefore the same with boundaries.
~ Novalis
Some folks you tell some things, some folks you don't.
~ Ntozake Shange
What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these relationships such an outrage to reality that they cannot last a lifetime?
~ Nuala O'Faolain
N'aurions-nous pu nous aimer, aussi bien, elle chez elle, moi chez moi ; éviter les froissements possibles de cette situation qu'on appelle d'un mot ignoble : le collage ?…
~ Octave Mirbeau
A long leash is still a leash.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.
~ Octavia E. Butler