Quotes About Boundaries

Let's be exclusive' Charles Wallace said.

How can we set limits that are creative and not destructive?

He's not good for you, Omio said. He wants too much. He is someone who takes. He does not give.

I don't know. Maybe the fellow from my own home town. He's very good looking, Stevie.' Kit said this partly to put the glamorous Frankie in the position of knowing that Stevie was out of bounds, partly to convince herself. In her heart she knew that Stevie was cheap and obvious.

The notion of students as customers combined with greater reliance on technology has led to the increased blurring of work and life, with, for example, "demands such as 24-hour limit for responses to student queries" (par. 22).

I feel I can give you everything without giving myself away, I whispered in your basement bed. If one does one's solitude right, this is the prize.

It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are.

Sometimes the best conversations between strangers allow the stranger to remain a stranger.

Look at how easily Alex interrupts the doctor—I'm not ten. That's entitlement: his mother permits that casual incivility because she wants him to learn to assert himself with people in positions of authority.

Without territory a legal person cannot be a state.

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

When you get clear on your own boundaries, you will find it easy to decide what you are willing to accept in your career.

Every great dream has no defined parameters, out of fear we set the limitations.

It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.

Be cautious when associating with those who have little or no value or appreciation for time.

The most important expression of love is self-love – it should precede loving others.

Anyone who constantly makes you unhappy belongs in someone else's world, not yours.

When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.

Choose to put yourself first and make you a priority. It's not selfish, it's necessary.

Time, energy and money. These should never be compromised.

How could you expect people to treat you well, when you don't treat yourself right?

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

My old geometry teacher called me and he was like yo man you need to start wearing a shirt. You're ruining my marriage.