Quotes About Boundaries

I'd rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

If someone doesn't want me, I'm not going to hang around and win them over.

Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.

Even your religious friends do not want to hear about God during a medical diagnosis.

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.

It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It's particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.

Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you.

Don't share your fantasies unless you're sure your partner really wants to hear them.

Respect is crucial to relational health.

Upsizing empathy is essential, as is doing all we can to love this person as they are, as Christ would. The definition of empathy is the feeling that you understand and share another person's experiences and emotions: the ability to share someone else's feelings. 1 But keeping good boundaries so that you are not as affected by their behavior is just as biblical as love. We want to be responsive, not reactive, and that is where empathy can help.

resist keeping company with those who merely feed off the negative emotions of others.

They said a secretary should not question her boss's personal life and a boss should not question his secretary's personal life. But it was a Christian organization.

THE BIG PICTURE A. WISDOM: THE FOUNDATION OF RECOVERY (1:1-27) B. FAITH: THE SUBSTANCE OF RECOVERY (2:1-26) C. SELF-CONTROL: SETTING BOUNDARIES IN RECOVERY (3:1-18) D. HUMILITY: THE ATTITUDE OF RECOVERY (4:1-17) E. GIVING OF OURSELVES: THE EVIDENCE OF RECOVERY (5:1-20)

Do not try to predict the effects your actions will have, because you can't. Instead, encourage people to adapt their actions to realize the overall intention as they observe what is actually happening. Give them boundaries which are broad enough to take decisions for themselves and act on them.

It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

I would die for you. But I won't live for you.

self-dedication is too small a work. It inevitably becomes a prison.