Quotes About Boundaries

You go rummaging around in other people's lives. You hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things. But you don't." He looked hard at the scribe. "When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend." Besides, I did

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend." Besides,

Pedirle a un músico que te deje coger su instrumento es como pedirle a un hombre que te deje besar a su esposa. Eso es algo que solo entiendes si eres músico. Un instrumento es como un compañero y una amante. Los desconocidos suelen pedir a los músicos que les dejen coger sus instrumentos, y eso les fastidia mucho.

The key to staying safe was knowing the rules of the situation.

Ella me enseñó que no debía hacer nada en privado de lo que no quisiera que se hablara en público

It was the same scolding any child receives. Stay out of the neighbor's garden. Don't tease the Bentons' sheep. Don't play tag among the thousand spinning knives of your people's sacred tree.

he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.

I hope you'll understand if I don't kiss you good night on the first date. I just don't want a reputation as that kind of guy. I mean, if you get the milk for free, you won't buy the cow, and then I won't have my steaks. I love steak, especially barbequed. Let

Have you noticed we tend to be "yes" people to our friends and "no" people to our children?

Careful how you bare yer soul Careful not to bare it all

At least they'll never get it," he said. "Who are they?" I asked. "Anyone who isn't us." he replied.

We never saw beyond New York save in books and never sat in an airplane holding each other's hand to ascend into a new sky and descend onto a new Earth. Yet Robert and I had explored the frontier of our work and created space for each other.

If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.

We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we become more and more opaque to ourselves, more and more aware of our own incoherence. No one can cross the boundary into another – for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself.

They had come to the end of what they could talk about. Beyond that point there was nothing: the random thoughts of men who knew nothing.

I hear her slip into bed with him, and I hear everything that happens after that. Sex is such a strange and sloppy business, why bother to recount every slurp and moan that ensued? Tom and Honey deserve their privacy, and for that reason I will end my report of the night's activities here. If some readers object, I ask them to close their eyes and use their imaginations.

Hiç kimse bir ba?kas?n?n s?n?r?ndan içeri giremez, nedeni de basittir: Hiç kimse kendine ula?amaz da ondan.

Nessuno può sconfinare in un altro - per il semplice motivo che nessuno può accedere a se stesso.

NEXT EXIT, and know I was home. Shit, I missed that sign. And what are cities really, besides signs and arbitrary boundaries?

I missed my father driving us back from the Pomona State Fair, elbowing me awake, the Dodger postgame on the radio as I rubbed the sleep from my eyes just in time to see that sign, DICKENS-NEXT EXIT, and know I was home. Shit, I missed that sign. And what are cities really, besides signs and arbitrary boundaries?

It's not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own.

When you allow the immature to dictate the terms of relationships, you are giving them the green light to exploit, neglect, or abuse you.