Quotes About Boundaries

Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.

Everything in life, is a question of drawing a line, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You can't draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.

The job of parents is to model. Modeling includes how to be a man or woman; how to relate intimately to another person; how to acknowledge and express emotions; how to fight fairly; how to have physical, emotional and intellectual boundaries; how to communicate; how to cope and survive life's unending problems; how to be self-disciplined; and how to love oneself and another. Shame-based parents cannot do any of these. They simply don't know how.

This is the nature of social existence. We talk in order to impose limits, to contain the world in a narrow frame.

Non avevo mai avuto l'impressione di crescere all'ombra di mia madre: vivevo nel mio mondo, uno spazio di cui lei aveva delimitato i confini, lasciandomi però libera di riempirlo come meglio credevo. Mia madre viveva come aveva scelto di vivere, e sapevo che il lavoro era la cosa che contava di più per lei, ma questo consentiva anche a me di vivere come volevo e di decidere liberamente cosa contava di più per me...

Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

The   providence of God, I grant, does not indeed preclude the faithful from   caring for themselves; but let them do it in such a way, that they may   not overstep their prescribed bounds.

Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink.

Stupidity, he knew, did not recognize boundaries of color or creed. But he had come to believe that, like driving a car, people should have to pass a test before being allowed access to the Internet

After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.

think you just like tethering goats." "Well, be sure to tell me when your rope begins

God has placed clear limits on Man's intelligence, but none on his stupidity.

T)here is no right not to be offended." (p. 237)

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

It's as if there is no more room in their lives for parents.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

My life with Howard Hughes was and shall remain a matter on which I will have no comment.

I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

When life has gone into overtime it's easy to take liberties.

I have a life. My kids don't run my house.

It's hard to keep family life and workplace separated.

I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.