Quotes About Boundaries

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.

Do not expect to receive love from someone else you do not give yourself

Often, when information is withheld by women and men, protection of privacy is the justification. In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings—where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.

In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy

She wondered if perhaps it was something to do with marking their territory. Like dripping on the floor.

Abel Becket had never seen as much of his wife's breasts as Mrs. Loring saw fit to present to the world.

Men who lead by fear might become great kings and might rule lands so great that no man knows their boundaries, but they can be beaten, too, beaten by men who fight as brothers.

A man whose house is burning to the ground does not carry water to his neighbour's fire

People have to share everything they do these days, from meals, to nights out, to selfies of themselves half naked in a mirror The borders between public and private are dissolving

We did not have a world that we shared; she gave me the space in her life that she wanted me to have. I had to be content with that.

Berg, Sophia may be a Greek name, but that is no reason for you to study your neighbor in a Greek lesson. Translate!

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Liberty demands self-government, but not the right to interfere with others.

I think I shall have to avoid growing intimate with people I don't respect, or trying to help them: it seems to be a job for which I am not fitted.

All movements go too far.

It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick falls across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.

nobody gets the right to keep you in a pit...

JESUS IS NOT unhealthy. Not codependent with us.

When you need to set boundaries . . . They are the kind [of people] who work their way into people's homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires. 2 TIMOTHY 3:6

Godly accountability is never codependency.

The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. Psalm 16:6

Stay out of my salsa and I'll stay out of yours. This is key to long-lasting relationships in Texas.

A person cannot be whole in a relationship where he or she feels powerless to make healthy choices.

I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.