Quotes About Boundaries

Limited-thinking thinkers think, limited and have no ability, to approach beyond that.

Never cross the limits of any matter, you will harm, not only yourself, but you will also lose your motives and trust.

Never look back, and forgive and forget those people who humiliate and fool you and break your trust. The behaviour they have shown you, indicates that they do not deserve your devotion and affection.

Play not with others' life and not let others play with your life.

Real and pure love, exists in the age of nine and ninety years, between that lies a risk. However, an exception may become a wonder.

To defy and violate one's privacy is the transgression, and it falls under an ugly crime.

You cannot keep away yourself from the shameless, impudent, and silly one until you close all links in an open way.

Your partner knows your body secrets; never neglect and ignore others to spy on that.

El mundo es un muro de piedra -pensaba-, y han puesto las piedras tan juntas que no hay ni una sola rendija por la que uno pueda entrar.

Nobody's home. Don't answer the door during working hours unless you're waiting for a special delivery. Use a peephole if you need to know.

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

Being so eager to please, we're not easy to liberate. We're too aware of what others need.

Perhaps the greatest maturity is our ability to conceive the whole universe as our container, our body as a microcosm of that universe, with no boundaries. That is more or less enlightenment. But most of us will need more finite containers for a while, even if we are beginning to learn to make do with intangible ones in a pinch. Indeed, as long as we are in bodies, enlightened or not, we need some bit of tangible safety, or at least a sense of sameness.

You want to have some professional boundaries. Especially at work, you need to spend more time with the less sensitive, who can be a great balance to you, and you to them. Develop outside of work the more intense sorts of relationships that offer you the emotional depth you seek.

Often we can get used to stimulation. But sometimes we think we have and aren't being bothered, but suddenly feel exhausted and realize why: We have been putting up with something at a conscious level while it was actually wearing us down. Even a moderate and familiar stimulation, like a day at work, can cause an HSP to need quiet by evening. At that point, one more "small" stimulation can be the last straw.

You have probably learned to take downtime when you need it, which is more often than others do, and avoid overstimulating environments, but only people close to you see this side of you.

But many HSPs avoid people who come in the overstimulating packages—the strangers, the big parties, the crowds. For

Also outside of work should be the relationships that offer the safe harbor from the emotional storms created by your sensitivity. Don't look for that among your colleagues, and especially not from your supervisors. You're just too much for them to handle, and they may decide there's "something wrong with you.

Some of us get caught up in demands from others. These may be real responsibilities or may be the common ideas of what makes for success—money, prestige, security. Then there are the pressures others can bring to bear on us because we are so unwilling to displease anyone.

BOUNDARIES The extreme nature of everything I've experienced as a mother has also taught me the need for boundaries. I have learned to value my own limited energy and resources, and so I will ask my children to help me around the house. If they choose not to help, they will lose some valued object or activity.

As you begin to simplify your life, you're going to be making a lot of changes in the way you spend your time. If saying no is a problem for you, go back to your short list (#21) and keep it firmly in mind. Your objective will be to get to the point where you see that by turning down an invitation you're not saying no to someone else; rather you're saying yes! to what you really want to do.

the general rules of reciprocity are not working with the NPD person. The relationship begins to operate more and more on his terms as if these are the only terms.

Whether we do this explicitly or implicitly, we must learn to extricate ourselves from the narcissist's constant distortion of reality.

Only I can let you disrepect me! Eleanore Roosevelt