Quotes About Boundaries

And a six-week cap on the relationship was perfect. He could enjoy the getting-to-know-you sex and the know-you-well-enough-to-push-the-right-buttons sex, but be gone before the I'm-falling-in-love-with-you-Mitch sex.

I think pain is a thing that, when it fills your cup, you shouldn't keep pouring from the pitcher.

They're our families, but they're not us. Whatever hitches they carry in their steps does not cripple you or me.

He turned toward the door, but lingered on the threshold, seeming to want to say more. 'You should not let just anyone kiss your hand, you know,' he said, the mock seriousness still in his voice. 'Greta will tell you that. And definitely no kissing anywhere off the dance floor—in the gardens, for instance, or in empty hallways when no one else is near.' I believe she's covered that in one of her lectures,' I said demurely.

Mally likes to have boundaries. She likes to know that making a choice means she has to give up something else. She likes to think that actions have consequences. It makes her feel like the world makes sense.

What she helped me learn is that even compassion has boundaries. It is not for those who get up each day and choose a path of discord. This includes me. I have learned that I do not deserve compassion either if I do the same.

Friendship isn't all peaches and cream. Its how much you can take someone's bullshit and insults and not be offended by it.

You are not rejecting a person if you reject his words. You get to receive the person with kindness and compassion and treat him as a human being. If someone gets offended and feels rejected just because you rejected his words, then stay away from him, because he has unhealthy heart boundaries that cause him to use prophecy to control or manipulate the people around him.

As I read the Gospels, I never saw a time when Jesus was a doormat. Jesus found a perfect balance, and for me it has been an ongoing search to find the line to walk between making people happy and giving up too much in order to do so.

He just wasn't good at being a cross between a teddy bear and just a friend.

boundaries, Sheila. Barriers. We need them. They let you love someone. Otherwise you might kill them.

this daddy longlegs...became like a pet,' I offered. 'I remember that.' 'Not something you could control, but something you could love. But if it had left the bathroom and invaded the bedroom, you probably wouldn't have liked it so much. But keeping it in the bathroom allowed you to love it. Keeping it in there was a sign that you loved it...Barriers. We need them. They let you love someone. Otherwise you might kill them.

Life is not a harvest. Just because you have an apple doesn't mean you have an orchard. You have an apple. Put a fence around it. Once you have put a fence around everything you value, then you have the total circle of your heart.

That's because you give your heart away too easily.

I don't want to do anything that might be perceived as overstepping our bounds. Pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered.

Never put a boy in front of your friendship

You only find yourself bending over backwards when the bar is too low.

She knew enough to take a few steps back from the relationship when things got particularly combustive.

Good God, woman. Hit the brakes on the freight train that is your mouth.

Do you want to come inside for a drink?" she softly offered. "No. No. No, no, no, no. No." Gwen stared at him. "One 'no' would have been clear." "Those 'no's' weren't for you. They were for me. I was simply saying them out loud.

Fine! Do whatever you want. And when you get fleas, don't come complaining to me.

I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with the director.

Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.

It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.