Quotes About Boundaries

The boundaries of your life are merely a creation of the self.

Life is too short to surround yourself with people who aren't looking out for you.

Never let a boy be your life. They can live in your world, but never make a guy your world.

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

I try to keep my private life kind of private.

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

I can't think of anything I'd rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life.

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.

If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.

You don't even really get used to doing scenes where you have to kiss, or be particularly intimate, with another person who's not actually your lover in real life.

Fear knows no borders, and the terminology of hate has seeped into every aspect of life.

Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.

I don't intend him, or any man or any woman, to be all my life - good heavens, no! There are heaps of things in me that he doesn't, and shall never, understand.

He just loved her in a limited way. Loved her best when she needed help. Loved her best when he could set the boundaries and make the rules. Loved her best when she was a smaller, younger person than he was, with no social power.

Now that I am grown, I think don't take no for an answer is a lesson we teach boys who would be better off learning that no means no.

It makes a difference, doesn't it, whether we fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

He should know no one intimately, least of all a woman.

I don't intend him, or any man or any woman, to be all my life — good heavens, no! There are heaps of things in me that he doesn't, and shall never, understand.

Oh, fence me out if you like! Fence me out as much as you like! But never in. Oh Harcourt, never in.

The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.

A mature Christian recognizes that correcting every wrong on the Internet would take more hours than a full-time job. If you snap every time your great-aunt's friend's cousin thrice-removed makes a snarky comment about "all the contradictions in the Bible," it will consume you and your joy.

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?

I have found it shocking how often communication across hierarchical and functional boundaries is faulty.

Personalization is especially dangerous when it occurs across formal hierarchical or status boundaries, because even in small steps like eating and drinking together, we are temporarily putting ourselves on an equal footing and can ask one another questions or say things to one another that in the Level One context might be considered offensive and disrespectful.