Quotes About Boundaries

A bird may love a fish but where would they build a home together?

A 'full' life in my experience is usually full only of other people's demands

I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.

It was tempting to view your family as an extension of yourself, but it was a mistake.

Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

You don't ever let a man say 'My way or nothing' to you. Not even a good man. Not even my son. And you never say 'My way or nothing' to him. You don't take your sweetheart's love and use it on him. You can do that to your mama, but not your sweetheart." I smiled at that.

maintain that one of the reasons some adult children estrange themselves, or claim to have narcissistic parents, is that they experience their parents' demand for intimacy as more than they can fulfill, and in some cases, more than they should be asked to bear.

It's especially important to a couple's well-being and longevity if the husband has sufficiently separated from his parents and is able to prioritize his wife's happiness over his own mother's.20 Men who are too tied to their own parents may give their parents too much say over how to conduct their households.

What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead.

The monster always represents the disruption of categories, the destruction of boundaries

We should never use spiritual activities as a way to grab for more intimacy than is appropriate for our relationship.

Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.

The bonds of family can be wonderful but there is a time to know when to stand apart.

There's a fine line between support and stalking and let's all stay on the right side of that.

Can't save everyone

He may be friendly, but he's not your friend.

Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you.

Outside the hospital," said Benavides with a hint of impatience, "I do not speak of my terminal patients. It's a decision I made many years ago and it still seems the best decision I ever made. One has to keep one's lives separate, Vasquez. If not, one can go crazy. This is exhausting, it sucks one's energy. And like any other person, I have limited energy.

La empatía por la desgracia ajena tiene un límite. Pasado el cual comienzas a sentir que su infortunio es un acto de maldad, cuya víctima eres tú.

Porque hay territorios del alma que no pueden ser compartidos, por mucho que quieras y confíes en la otra persona.

La empatía por la desgracia ajena tiene un límite. Pasado el cual comienzas a sentir que su infortunio es una acto de maldad, cuya víctima eres tú.

Hay territorios del alma que no pueden ser compartidos, por mucho que quieras y confíes en la otra persona.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.