Quotes About Boundaries

Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't mean that your families are going to fall in love with each other.

If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.

Saying "I love you" makes a demand, but creates no obligations.

You can't be friends with someone who's in love with you if you don't love that person back the same way.

But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.

The getting out part [of advise] may well be true. Because if you have tried the tender love thing... typically the abuser is not going to change until they are pushed in a corner.

Love is that orbit of the restless soulWhose circle grazes the confines of space,Bounding within the limits of its raceUtmost extremes.

I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.

You probably love to tell kids to get off your lawn, too.

I love everybody but I don't have to hire everybody.

He loved her all he could; but he couldn't love her very much.

Because God loves us, he gives us practical teaching and boundaries to protect our hearts. The whole thing is one big expression of a father's love for his children.

Love can't be stolen without willing participants.

I wonder what the difference between love and control is, but I'm afraid to look those words up in a dictionary.

We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them.

I love men who know when to put their foot down and when not to.

That's what all love comes down to, doesn't it? We help others only as much as they let us.

When you give people who are being financially responsible money, you are enabling them to continue a bad habit. So you are actually helping by saying, "Love you but no."

Louann is ours, Amy thought. That's it. We know what she can do and what she can't do. We don't need any Mrs. Peck trying to change things.

It seemed to me that a great many fences had been put up all over the world, in the long course of history, that were not necessary. Fences round nations, fences round property. They were supposed to be symbols of security, but they were cheating symbols. They had a precisely opposite effect from that which was intended. They did not prevent crime, they incited it; they led not to peace but to war. A world without fences would be a better world.

The leader has to ask the question, how is the circle being drawn? Who is inside it? Who is outside it? What can I do to name the circle bigger?

If you live your life to please everyone else, you will continue to feel frustrated and powerless. This is because what others want may not be good for you. You are not being mean when you say NO to unreasonable demands or when you express your ideas, feelings, and opinions, even if they differ from those of others.