Quotes About Boundaries

It's not that I wanted to be mean. But any time I started feeling sorry for her, something in my brain said Don't go there, it's a trap. I'd tried all the options with Mom and had only one place left to go on her. Cold.

That's how it always is with us. Step too far one way or the other and you've got on your sister's toes.

It's not that I wanted to be mean. But any time I started feeling sorry for her, something in my brain said Don't go there, it's a trap. I'd tried all the options with Mom and had only one place left to go on her. Cold.

A family couldn't have domestic help and secrets.

If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.

Restricting yourself in this way may seem both difficult and arbitrary, but actually, this is the kind of discipline we exercise in other aspects of life. You may have a rule of thumb never to have more than two glasses of wine at a sitting.

The strings that bind you tight to the map of your life

All that this country desires is that the other republics on this continent shall be happy and prosperous," Theodore Roosevelt declared, "and they cannot be happy and prosperous unless they maintain order within their boundaries and behave with a just regard for their obligations toward outsiders.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.

In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

No one can hurt you without your consent." In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them." It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more

As Eleanor Roosevelt observed, "No one can hurt you without your consent." In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

that no one can hurt me without my consent

No one can hurt you without your consent." In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place.

We are limited, but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

one can hurt you without your consent." In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

No one can hurt you without your consent.

Hang up the phone on a vampire, the definition of carefree.

God save me from politicians, Christians, or pagans who think they are my mother!

We tend not to realise the extent to which we make up … the world, that is, the world of relative truths. We set boundaries, we make definitions. We determine what is good, what is bad, what ought to be, and what ought not to be – all out of inclinations of our mind.

And after his unparsable response, including a passage where he said he was 'blurring the boundaries between a thing and thought,' she said, 'Thank you, I get lost sometimes,' while laying two fingers on his folded arm.