Quotes About Boundaries

These are the things you don't say, even to someone you love.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

moving on means we have to protect ourselves.

You have to stop drawing on things!"Teena was yelling. "Paper only, okay? Not walls. Not faces. Not Mrs. Reynold's dog. Not my pants." "I was doing the days of the week pants" "I don't need days of the week pants!" She shouted. "And if I did I would spell Wednesday correctly!

MOVING ON means we have to protect ourseves

We women face many unexpected challenges when we choose to step outside what are considered our habitual boundaries

I would honestly have changed my flight, perhaps even disappeared until I could make sure that there was between us a whole continent, not just a few impossible inches.

I don't want to make polite conversation with neighbours, to explain myself. I don't want to be judged for what I did.

the answer was no, whatever her query was, except for those bits to which his answer was yes

Rule #5 Don't Waste Your Energy on Those Who Don't Get on Your Bus.

Rule #6 Post a Sign That Says NO ENERGY VAMPIRES ALLOWED on Your Bus.

We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it.

When you have sexual relations with someone, for example, there is a soul tie (emotional bonding) that generates because two fleshes become one (Genesis 2:24). Sexual relations in marriage generate a healthy soul tie while sexual relations outside of marriage create unhealthy soul ties.

In the light of its recent history and usage, "Amazing Grace" has sometimes been called "the spiritual national anthem of America." It is a description that can be applied even more widely on an international canvas, for the hymn soars above most boundaries as a simple celebration of the experience of grace. In principle it can be, and is, sung with this meaning not only by Christians but by Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and people of no particular faith.

They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?

Some people don't realize that a straight 'No' can be the kindest answer in the world.

If we could just erase the borders and boundaries that divide us, then thew world would "be as one". It's a vision of heaven for liberals, but conservatives believe it would quickly descend into hell... If you destroy all groups and dissolve all internal structure, you destroy your moral capital.

our feelings of disgust can sometimes provide us with a valuable warning that we are going too far, even when we are morally dumbfounded and can't justify those feelings by pointing to victims:

You see the fence as something keeping the zoms out. I don't. I see it as the thing that pens us in. We're trapped here. Trapped isn't "alive." Trapped isn't "safe." And it isn't "free.

The word "impossible" used to mean something. It was a line that couldn't be crossed. It was the outer edge of the safe zone. I can't find that line anymore

Normal is like the horizon. The closer you get to it, the further away you are.

I think there must be more to life than answering emails at midnight and five in the morning.

Richard, you know I love my family, but that's no reason why I should have to acknowledge them in broad daylight.

For each of us there is a Jordan we will not cross. Once