Quotes About Boundaries

As a believer involved in any premarital relationship, you must assume the other person does not belong to you—that he or she may ultimately belong to another. Until marriage vows are exchanged, there are no guarantees. You should operate as if you are getting to know another man's future wife or another woman's future husband. Treat them with the respect you hope someone is showing your future spouse

We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

A man's religion and love life were nobody else's concern so long as neither of them gouged out some innocent bystander's eyes.

Have you ever tried taking a phone away from a teen, especially for an extended period?

The church is in the world the way a ship is in the ocean, and that is the way it should be. But bad things start happening when the ocean gets into the ship.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: «Los límites de mi lenguaje son los límites de mi mundo».

We teach people how to treat us

You do not have the right to quit trying. (The universe wobbles when you do.) You have the right to quit Toxic People. (They're contagious.)

People around you should really have nothing to say.

So cry if you need to, but I cant stay to watch you. Thats the wrong thing to do.

Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

Fear is the highest fence.

If once you enter the arena of intimacy with someone, you owe them honest explanations to the best of your ability. You must never blank people when intimate relations have arisen; you must never slam the door in their face.

black swan event like the storming of the Bastille, in other words, the broader you have to draw the boundaries around what you consider to be the event itself.

In the process, what must be spoken meets what cannot be said. Each word is a catalyst, requiring the writer to break out forcefully from another story, from the primitive camp where history, society, and politics converge, to touch upon that 'what' and that 'who.' At that touch, one finds the unlimited boundaries of man, concealed by words.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

Im share a lot of details, but 98 percent of my life is still private.

I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

If you don't want your life to be 'messed up', don't fool around with those who have messed up theirs.