Quotes About Boundaries

You owe it to you to put yourself first. When you take care of yourself, take the time to see yourself, and get comfortable with being you, only then can you start to take care of other people, see other people, and be comfortable with other people.

A big change is coming, and politicians, self-important scientists, and unctuously blathering religious leaders may want to, but will never be able to, stop it. There is no vaccination against thinking. Ideas know no boundaries and no censorship. And what's more, ideas have a dangerous tendency to spread like wildfire.

Life is a game and people love games. But games need rules. Most children's plays or guileless entertaining assume rules. Without rules we cannot play and without play we cannot enjoy life. ("When forgetting the rules of the game" )

So, what's the key difference between a good citizen of a group and a poor one? I find that the most useful place to draw the line is at the issue of others' rights. Employees who respect others' rights are aware of where they stop and the other person starts; they don't habitually do things that undermine, inconvenience, or intrude upon others.

I learned a lot. Friendship and kinship matter more than adventure. Boundaries only exist in our minds. A heart can travel to the horizon without moving a paw step. And I made the best friend any cat ever had.

Stop it, you two!" Spiderleg's stern mew echoed around the hollow as he separated his kits. "We were just playing," Toadkit complained. "Well, play something quieter!" Spiderleg snapped. "I don't envy you, Graystripe. Two kits are hard enough." Then he yelped in pain. "When I told you to play something else, Toadkit, I didn't mean attacking my tail!

WindClan territory

I'll always be your friend, Talltail. But I'm a kittypet and you're a warrior. You'll always be a Warrior.

You can't punish them for loving you too much, Hollyleaf.

Badgers and cats don't mix, and that's the end of it.

I'm tired of being your scratching post," he growled. "From now on, sharpen your claws on someone else." - Bumblestripe

DO NOT HUNT OR TRESPASS ON ANOTHER CLAN'S TERRITORY.

Only Skystar looked unconvinced. "So the rule on boundaries comes last now?" Gray Wing looked at the SkyClan leader. "Perhaps it should have come last all along.

But don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden.

What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed.

Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it.

I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them.

The law is a batter, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

There are some Christians whose secular life is an arid, worldly strife, and whose religion is but a turbid sentimentalism. Their life runs along that line where the overflow of the Nile meets the desert. It is the boundary line between sand and mud.

There is a need for closeness, yet we can't get too close. The teacher-pupil relationship is a kind of tightrope to be walked. I know how carefully I must choose a word, a gesture. I understand the delicate balance between friendliness and familiarity, dignity and aloofness.

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

I promised myself that we'd have this little air-clearing chat today without my tongue ending up in your mouth.

I would never want to force you to do something you don't want to do, I don't ever want to take something from you that you don't want to give me.

Don't hold my hand in here. It's hard for me to concentrate when you do." "You do realize that makes it even more tempting.