Quotes About Boundaries

Along in Life As you will go Remember the Times When you must say "NO!

Tear down your border of thicket and vine creating a free world, yours and mine.

There is great security in the prisons we create for ourselves.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

And such challenges just don't stop; our boundaries are extremely porous. Viruses, for instance, perform a really irritating function of intermingling the DNA from every species on Earth with every other. As Richard Lewontin

To understand Bonhoeffer, we must understand, on the one hand, the limits of oneself and, on the other hand, the utter absence of limits of God.

Do not invest time and money into yourself to have others completely destroy it!

If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves.

When you truly love yourself, you do not accept abusive relationships, because you know you deserve better.

If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves. We become the reflections of others' dramas and their lives, their tragedies, and their misfortunes become our own.

Is there a way to choose a few things and do them well rather than do a lot of things halfway or not at all? Can we accept the fact that we may be in a season when we need to say no with the understanding that the season will not last forever?

I said it would be better if we weren't friends, not that I didn't want to be.

Never refer to a large dog as a friend - he is in custody and he knows it.

You control what you can control—your image, the way you conduct yourself, the way you let men talk to and approach you—and use that to get the relationship you want.

Men automatically know from the moment she opens her mouth that if they want her, they'll have to get in line whith her standards and requirments, or keep it moving because she's done with the games and isn't interested in playing.

THE POWER TO END ENABLING. Some people say yes all the time in order to save other people—to cover for them when they won't step up to the plate. Stop. Your no forces someone to step into the place he is being called to. Even if you let him fail once . . . you are helping him in the long run. Your yes is only delaying the inevitable.

Stop giving your gift to those who want to use you for the development of their legacy, at the cost of yours.

Instead of telling him what you like, tell him what you don't like, and then see how he responds; let him research and dig and figure out how to get to your sweet spot.

women will put up with a lot of things. Cheating is not one of them.

He then went on to explain that he loved me and would never do anything to hurt me, but if I gave him permission to have sex with other women and not form relationships with them, he would.

What's your price? If you let him know up front, he will let you know up front if it's too high a price for him to pay. And then you can move on.

You're married—I can't do that with you." Man, do you know how many marriages and relationships would still exist today?

Men automatically know from the moment she opens her mouth that if they want her, they'll have to get in line with her standards and requirements, or keep it moving because she's done with the games and isn't interested in playing.

Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going out on dates and being intimate.