Boundaries Quotes - Page 8

• If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. And then in a way you do not live at all, but in another way you live forever.

  John McPhee

  Years, Forever, Way

  John McPhee (2000). “Annals of the Former World”, p.88, Macmillan

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• The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nature, Fall, Clouds

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• Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people who went on to become part of the Fascist experience: (1) shift power directly to economic and social interest groups; (2) push entrepreneurial initiative in areas normally reserved for public bodies; (3) obliterate the boundaries between public and private interest -- that is, challenge the idea of the public interest. This sounds like the official program of most contemporary Western governments.

  John Ralston Saul

  Ideas, Government, People

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Lying, Reality, Understanding

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• Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Confused, Ignorance, People

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• Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Difficult Questions, Church, Answers

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• [L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

  Truman Capote

  Love, Geography, Knows

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.124, Vintage

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• I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself.

  Robin McKinley

  Yoga, Self, Class

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• I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.” Lurie, if the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and return stronger, then we are all fools and charlatans. I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.

  Chaim Potok

  Views, Stronger, World

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• Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

  Lois Lowry

  Genius, Shouting, Disregard

  Lois Lowry (1977). “A Summer to Die”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One could say: "The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary." The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE.

  Stephen Hawking

  Self, Would Be, Conditions

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

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• The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to speak even when my words are not received; free to act even when my actions are criticized, ridiculed, or considered useless.... I am convinced that I will truly be able to love the world when I fully believe that I am loved far beyond its boundaries.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Believe, Tasks

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Father, Hair, Dollars

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.68, St. Martin's Press

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• This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew that she had crossed the forbidden boundary, but she proceeded across it without objections and as a full participant; only somewhere, far off in a corner of her consciousness, did she feel horror at the thought that she had never known such pleasure, never so much pleasure as at this moment--beyond that boundary.

  Milan Kundera

  Girl, Emotion, Consciousness

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• Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.

  Peggy Noonan

  Wall, Institutions

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• I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. But to feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, from those unknown to us, who are watching over our sleep and solitude, over our dangers and our weaknesses – that is something still greater and more beautiful because it widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

  Pablo Neruda

  Beautiful, Brother, Sleep

  Pablo Neruda, Mikis Theodorakis (1985). “Canto general: a song of the people”

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• ...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.

  David Brin

  Past, Drawing, Looks

  David Brin (2011). “Kil'n People”, p.399, Hachette UK

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• Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.

  Terry Goodkind

  Light, Evil, Giving

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.366, Head of Zeus

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• In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Hurt, Reality

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 05, 2017

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• I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

  Steve Toltz

  Real, Loss, Thinking

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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• Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives are governed by something much less regular-an imaginative impulse cutting through the dictates of daily time, and leaving us free to ignore the boundaries of here and now and pass like lightning along the coil of pure time, that is, the circle of the universe and whatever it does or does not contain.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cutting, Thinking, Circles

  Jeanette Winterson (1991). “Sexing the Cherry”, Vintage

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• at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is anything, this puts a bit of a strain on things. Outside the boundaries of the universe lie the raw realities, the could-have-beens, the might-bes, the never-weres, the wild ideas, all being created and uncreated chaotically like elements in fermenting supernovas. Just occasionally where the walls of the worlds have worn a bit thin, they can leak in.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wall, Lying, Reality

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• Santangelo is irritated. "We're not suppose to be collaborating. It's supposed to be a war and you're supposed to stick to the boundaries." "We've seen you in your jocks," she reminds him. "Taylor and Griggs have pashed. You've broken into your father's police station for us. Don't you think the war has lost a bit of its tension?

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, War, Thinking

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• If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality.

  Henry Cloud

  Kids, Parenting, Reality

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2009). “Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, How to Say No”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• 'You hate America, don't you?'
  'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.'

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Pain, Hate, Real

  "Mother Night". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1961.

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