Quotes About Boundaries

Don't assume responsibility for his emotional wellbeing. Don't be so quick to bond. And don't feel sorry for him.

Take the first clue that he is backing off as an indication that something could be seriously wrong. Although your first instinct is to move closer, the more appropriate action is to move away. Know that your reassurance and acceptance will not alleviate his problem. Quite the opposite, it may be causing the problem. So don't work at being extra-giving, loving, attentive, etc. It's the wrong reaction.

Acknowledge how certain behavior patterns—such as setting boundaries, fault-finding, mixed messages—are almost universal indications of a commitmentphobic problem in general, and are not specifically directed against you.

What a woman must do at the Beginning is stay realistic and slow the relationship down. At the Beginning, you have a great deal of ego leverage and control. Use it to set the pace and tone that will lead to permanency. No matter how much you're tempted to go along with his Hollywood style, don't do it.

We tend to think of grand organizations like corporations or empires coming about through deliberate human planning: designing the conceptual architecture for each imposing structure, brick by brick. But the shape an institution ultimately takes is not so much designed in advance by a master engineer as it is carved away by challenges to its outer boundaries, the way a coastline is partly formed by an endless battering of much smaller waves.

The trick is to figure out ways to explore the edges of possibility that surround you.

La cuestión es inventarse formas de explorar los límites posibles de lo que te rodea. Esto puede ser tan sencillo como cambiar el entorno físico en el trabajo, o cultivar un tipo específico de red social, o mantener ciertos hábitos en la forma de buscar y archivar la información.

One of the dangers of "self-determination" is that there is really no such thing as a "nation" in the sense of an ethnocultural group that coincides with a patch of real estate. Unlike features of a landscape like trees and mountains, people have feet.

There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

Stop saying yes out of fear about what others will think about you and say NO out of love for yourself!

They say love thy neighbor as thy self , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too?

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, 'cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.

It isn't love when another person cannot give you the space to live your own life.

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.