Quotes About Boundaries

Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.

When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.

I mark my years or parenting by the people who stepped in and forced me to abandon my inclination to meddle, micromanage, and coddle, beginning with my children's father, who sat me down and told me in year two that I was going to create a little monster if I continuted to act as though no and I don't love you were synonomous.

Our ability to understand, to embrace, to help, to know, to feel and to love is bounded only by our own emotional ambitions. The capacity to open ourselves up to one another is as huge as we dare to make it.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

He is very fond of me, almost too fond.  I could do with less caressing and more rationality.  I should like to be less of a pet and more of a friend, if I might choose; but I won't complain of that: I am only afraid his affection loses in depth where it gains in ardour. 

Therefore, Mr. Fergus, if you choose to enter my house as a friend, I will make you welcome, but if not, I must confess, I would rather you kept away

Love cannot be forced.

Of course, there are those who blow you kisses or try to take hold of your arm, but they're definitely knocking on the wrong door.

I don't dare do anything anymore, cause Tm afraid it's not allowed.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.

Additionally, I have spent approximately 1,736 hours of this one precious life waiting for the man to finish and pretending that felt good. And I want a refund.

I had enough to wrestle, wrangle and settle back into, with this one life of mine. Besides, I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.

Jesus is busy with his own stuff, and is not going to get involved in your little tug-of-war. Plus, don't forget, he has his own mother to deal with. She's all he can handle, as far as mothers go.

The harm is in the unwanted help or helping them when they need to figure things out for themselves. Help is the sunny side of control.

You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath.

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.

The very ill have little privacy, even for the most intimate of things.

weep when there are no more rules to break?" "Ah, but there are always rules to break.

So ended . . . a royal friendship which once could not be contained within the common bounds of love.

it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.