Boundaries Quotes

Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix.

My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

When Jerry Springer thinks you've gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality to it, but a joke is about surprising someone. I'm a great believer in context. You can joke about anything. I do like finding out where the line is drawn, deliberately crossing it and bringing some of them with me across the line, and having them be happy that I did.

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

When you take the problems of the world on your shoulders, your body doesn't feel good. It's just that simple. Leave the problems of the world to the individual problem-makers of the world, and you be the joy-seeker that you are.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.

The only boundaries we have are in form. There are no obstacles in thought.

Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

Darkness is your candle.Your boundaries are your quest.

I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

The minute anyone makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that that person means to have my life. And I will not give it to them. When a person commits these little murders, and then you catch him or her at it, he or she might say, "Oh, I didn't mean it." But make no mistake: It is an assassination attempt.

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

When love is not accepted move on;when love is not appreciated walk away;hopefully time will teach what real, true love is.

Make no a complete sentence.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then.

You can help a thousand...but you can't carry three on your back!

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.

I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.

I'm all for stage diving, but just don't step on my pedals

People treat us the way we teach them to treat us.

If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell shouldn't schedule a meeting with me before 10am.

If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

If you get offended by my music, don't listen to it.

I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.

There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

You teach people how to treat you.

People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.'

It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.