Quotes About Self-restriction

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

She was artificially narrowing herself, amputating every humane and tender piece that didn't fit into a rigid frame.

But I understand now that your love will always come with conditions and that no matter how good your intentions, something holds you back, Anita. Something will not allow you to give yourself completely to the moment, to that shining thing called love. You hold yourself back, and you hold back those who love you. I cannot live being offered your love one moment and denied it the next. I cannot live being punished for what I cannot change.' 'It's

I was mad that I couldn't enjoy it, that I'd made it impossible for myself to have a nice vacation.

Boundaries keep people out; mine served only to keep me in.

Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

I'd promised myself I'd never sing, dance or appear in my underwear in a movie, and I do all those things in the first 30 minutes of Boogie Nights. – Mark Wahlberg

People froze you in place. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest.

You thought that we limit the choices of our students?' asked Ader. 'We do not, but it is a sad fact that the great majority limit themselves.

You thought that we limit the choices of our students… We do not, but it is a sad fact that the great majority limit themselves.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

Limitations do not exist actually unless and until you harbour them within your own thoughts. That is to say, you can only be limited by your own thoughts, (mark you). -Emeasoba George

There are no stronger fetters than those we forge for ourselves.

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

Once again, I had made my world a very small place, and I didn't want to live there.

How did I get so bogged down in ordinariness that even this once I couldn't do the spontaneous thing, the thing I really wanted to do. The future is forbidden to no one. Unless we forbid it ourselves.

He just defined the dimensions of his own cage.

I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.

they were increasingly perceived as restrictions upon the self-expression and freedom of the individual.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.

Fijarnos limitaciones a nosotros mismos es uno de los pecados capitales de la humanidad.