Respecting Boundaries Quotes

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.

I can't, myself, determine what offends another person.

We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.

Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Despite my best efforts I’ve seen you naked before – doesn’t do much for me so no worries.

Sometimes family members will ask to be kept out of certain things that I'm writing, and I try to respect that. I'd much rather have relatives than a book.

Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s alright if I don’t sleep with you. What I’m saying is I’d like to be as fair as possible. I don’t want to force anything on anybody, any more than I’d want anything forced on me. It’s enough that I feel your presence or see your commas swirling around me.

I think maybe the key to having a long relationship is really appreciating that person's life and not trying to own it. It's like just stop trying. We all do it.

I can only control what I can control. I can't control plays called for me.

Hey. Hands off.” ", "“Please. Please, please, soooo pretty. Lemme just have one little touch.” "“Peabody, isn’t it embarrassing enough you’re wearing pink cowboy boots, again, without standing here drooling on my coat?”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]

I just want to make it clear that I admit that that's rapey behavior, but I am not a rapist.

Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.

The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.

I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.

Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

"Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette.

I like to wear a "Do Not Disturb" sign around my neck so that little kids can't tell me knock-knock jokes. "Hey, how ya doin'? Knock-knock." "Read the sign, punk!"

Pushing me away so I give her space, awww. Dealing wit a heart that I didn't break.

He scowled at Jason. "And please, I don't like being touched. Don't ever grab me again.

Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; first a hand and then a lip goeth she in by littles. She diveth not, she leapeth not from the pier; but by gentle shocks and cries of protest she entereth slowly; yet when the waters of love encompass her, then she is supported. She swimmeth in her joy; she floateth on the tide of happiness.

Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.