Quotes About Boundaries

I think a great many marriages would be saved if people would behave toward one another with the same courtesy that they would extend to someone whom they really didn't know as well as a marriage necessarily implies. … It's not very easy to do, but it is surely easier to do than to haggle and nag and fight and bitch and yelp at one another as you hear a lot of married people doing … They seem to feel that the familiarity of affection permits anything, including insult.

I'd endured his nonsense as long as I was able before telling him that Mrs. Fournier's life was her own business and that if he wished to make himself useful to me he would point out the sights and explain the things I was seeing.

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.

It was blissful, spending time with someone who would leave you alone. I loved him for it. And I was happy to repay in kind. It had never occurred to me that leaving someone alone could harden into a habit that could become a barrier.

Robin: I'm sure you've learnt to bake, but you have not learned to handle Much. The phrases that you need my lady, are No, No you can't, and No, get out of here before I throw something at you.

I liked that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself.

No one, mortal, immortal, or creatures beyond the knowledge of either, can belong to two worlds.

buying him clothes to improve his self-image • finding a therapist for him and begging him to go • financing expensive hobbies to help him use his time better • going through disruptive geographic relocations because "he's not happy here" • giving him half or all of our property and possessions so he won't feel inferior to us • providing him with a place to live so that he can feel secure

allowing him to abuse us emotionally because "he was never allowed to express his feelings before" • finding him a job.

Robin Norwood

I stopped needing to be available to everyone all the time

Don't pick up the phone every time it rings. It is there for your convenience, not the convenience of others.

Most people try to be all things to all people and, in so doing, achieve nothing. Elite performers have a laser-like focus on their highest priorities and an acute awareness of the best uses of their time. In fact, they build their whole lives around the activities that offer them the highest return on investment. They are good at saying no.

Stay away from all drama queens and negativity kings. If you don't, sooner or later, they'll dissolve your bigness and destroy your life. It's just what they do.

Tener el valor de decir no a las pequeñas cosas de la vida te dará fuerza para decir sí a las grandes cosas.

The boundaries of your life is merely creation of the self.

The boundaries of your life are merely creations of the self.

The telephone is there for your convenience, not for the convenience of your callers. Yet, as soon as we hear the phone ring, we act as if we are firefighters rushing to a five-alarm fire. We run to pick it up as if our lives depended on the call being answered at once. I have seen people interrupt quiet family dinners, dedicated reading times and meditation periods to answer

You must be ruthless with your time. Learn to say no. Having the courage to say no to the little things in life will give you the power to say yes to the big things.

Learning to say no to the non-essentials will give you more time to devote to the things that have the power to truly improve the way you live and help you leave the legacy you know in your heart you are destined to leave.

I will not allow others to walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

The fear you move through when you go to the edge of your limits actually causes your limits to expand.

Learning to say no to the non-essentials will give you more time to devote to the things that have the power to truly improve the way you live and help

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