Boundaries Quotes - Page 29

• Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

  Annie Lennox

  People, Want, Sake

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• I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Daughter, Mother, Kids

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• I think I have a part of myself which is a woman. When girls are together, they speak completely differently than when there is a guy around. But, with me, they don't see this masculine thing stopping them, and there is not this boundary.

  Christian Louboutin

  Girl, Thinking, Guy

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• With my feelings, I hold a lot in, because I didn't always have boundaries and people would take advantage of situations because I'm a nice guy.

  Kellan Lutz

  Nice, People, Guy

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• Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Growing Up, Exercise

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• I'd do almost anything for love, within safe boundaries. I've flown to places to surprise people, even if it was just for a day. I think it's so important to keep the romance alive and make sure the fun and spontaneity are there.

  Brittany Murphy

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.

  Tom Peters

  Sneakers, Buzz, Today

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• Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

  Steven Pinker

  World, Fields, Topics

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• If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross.

  Neil Gaiman

  Crosses, Wells, Ifs

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Smoke and Mirrors”, p.253, Hachette UK

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• Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.

  Norman Maclean

  Idaho, Mountain, World

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.131, University of Chicago Press

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• Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.

  Anais Nin

  Solitude, May, Moments

  "Collages" by Anais Nin, (p. 116), 1964.

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• Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.

  Philip K. Dick

  Successful, Empathy, Meat

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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• There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.

  Anais Nin

  Men, Night, Two

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• Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

  Emile Zola

  Art, Inability, Incapacity

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• Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Positivity, Boredom, Anxiety

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over

  Sara Shepard

  Letting Go, Starting Over, Window

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• If you want to call yourself my friend, you should know that position comes with boundaries." Sabine frowned. "I'm no good with boundaries." "Yes, and the ocean is damp. Can we be done with the understatements now?

  Rachel Vincent

  Ocean, Want, Done

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Crazy, Mean, Tunnels

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• I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

  John Perkins

  Fate, Exercise, Choices

  John Perkins (2016). “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.30, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.

  Paul Auster

  Fate, Men, Long

  Paul Auster (2012). “Winter Journal”, p.182, Macmillan

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• She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had become effaced, the tracks lost, she had walked into pure chaos, and not a chaos which carried her like the galloping of romantic riders in operas and legends, but which suddenly revealed the stage props: a papier-mâché horse.

  Anais Nin

  Horse, Self, Track

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• In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives -- and time itself -- would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible.

  Julian Barnes

  Waiting, Firsts, Would Be

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• Love doesn't adhere to time and boundaries does it? It just is.

  Jennifer Worth

  Doe

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• There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense—words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions—words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History.” Will grabbed the sheaf of newspaper clippings he kept in a stack on his desk. “This, and these”—he gestured to the library’s teeming shelves—“they’re a testament to the country’s rich supernatural history.

  Libba Bray

  Country, Lying, Thinking

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• That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only because we accept as real the boundary line between the opposites. It is, recall, the boundaries themselves which create the seeming existence of separate opposites. To put it plainly, to say that "ultimate reality is a unity of opposites" is actually to say that in ultimate reality there are no boundaries. Anywhere.

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Believe, Opposites

  Ken Wilber (1979). “No Boundary, Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, Great Eastern Book Company

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