Boundaries Quotes

• Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

  Uma Thurman

  Baby, Children, Heart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

  Corita Kent

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

  Alan Turing

  Science, Religion, Mathematician

  Epigram to Robin Gandy, 1954. "Alan Turing: The Enigma". Book by Andrew Hodges, p. 513, 1992.

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• Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

  Jimmy Carter

  Love, Nature, Art

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.10, University of Arkansas Press

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• Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries.

  Kathleen Dowling Singh

  Anger, Reactions, Violation

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  Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Men

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.134, Prestwick House Inc

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• By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

  Alan Watts

  Mind Blowing, Curiosity, Pushing

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• Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Choices, Identity, Protect

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• At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them

  Shonda Rhimes

  Badass, Drawing, People

  "Grey's Anatomy / The First Cut Is the Deepest". 2005.

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• Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Running, Perseverance, Healing

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• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Live Life, Ambition

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.31, Heron Dance Press

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• I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

  Hilary Swank

  Thinking, Should Have, People

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• Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Literature, Limits, Pleasure

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• I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

  Julia Roberts

  Love, Boyfriend, Believe

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• If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Reality

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

  Edmund Burke

  Peace, Passion, Creativity

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.422

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• I like pushing boundaries.

  Lady Gaga

  Pushing Boundaries, Pushing

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• And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Crosses, Permission, Our Lives

  Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

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• Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

  David Hilbert

  Country, Math, Race

  "Mathematical Circles Revisited". Book by Howard Whitley Eves, 1971.

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• I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

  Marcus Garvey

  Freedom, Racism, World

  Marcus Garvey (2012). “Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

  Harry S. Truman

  Peace, War, Communication

  "Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)" by M.P. Singh, p. 101, January 1, 2005.

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• The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

  William Gibson

  Frozen, Boxes, Human Experience

  William Gibson (1987). “Count Zero”, p.22, Penguin

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• Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

  K. D. Lang

  Art, Judgement, Prejudice

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• If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

  Joyce Maynard

  Would Be, Stories, Ifs

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