Boundaries Quotes
914 quotes by 759 authors
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I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories have centers, but…
— Andrew Clements
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You’re crowding me. I need— room.â€... What I needed were boundaries. I needed willpower. I needed to be caged up, since yet again I was…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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It makes one realize that the physicality if our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak; a true champion can…
— Garth Stein
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Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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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…
— Neil Gaiman
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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…
— Norman Maclean
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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…
— Anais Nin
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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and…
— Rebecca Solnit
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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…
— Philip K. Dick
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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…
— Anais Nin
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It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.
— Susan Cain
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Hogwarts is threatened!†shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I…
— Anne Carson
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
— Emile Zola
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The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question your worth. No…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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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
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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…
— Sara Shepard
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I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary…
— Saul Williams
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