Quotes About Boundaries

If someone doesn't like what you bring to the table in a relationship, let them eat alone.

Don't let your loyalty become your slavery.

My life got happier when I trusted my gut to tell me when to open the door or close the door. There is joy to be found in keeping away from people & situations which could harm my self-respect my peace my worth.

Examine what you tolerate. What you put up with you end up with. What you allow continues. Reevaluate the costs and your worth.

Love the people who treat you right pray or the people who don't

5 steps to happiness: Don't speak badly about yourself. Trust your instincts. Let go of what you can't control. Don't be afraid to say no. Don't be afraid to say yes.

one of the hardest things about being a mother is accepting that just because you give your kids life, that doesn't give you the right to live it for them.

I didn't want who I was to rub off on you too much, like a weak spirit was contagious.

Be polite, be kind, but be firm if you are clear that the idea in question will deplete you. Your ability to say no without justifying your decisions might be one of the least developed but most powerful tools women can learn.

The Must list is short because you are going to say "no" to anything that does not check every box on it.

Are you going to kiss me or not?" He released the jacket. "Not," he rasped. "Then I'll kiss you." Cupping his nape, she drew his head down, but Nate laid his fingertips over her mouth. "Some things you can't take back." Claire lifted his hand. "Some things you don't want to.

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

Tip 3: Watch out for teasing.

It is our duty to help those who need our help; but it cannot be our duty to make others happy, since this does not depend on us, and since it would only too often mean intruding on the privacy of those towards whom we have such amiable intentions.

Without our emotions, we can't make decisions; we can't decipher our dreams and visions; we can't set proper boundaries or behave skillfully in relationships; we can't identify our hopes or support the hopes of others; and we can't connect to, or even find, our dearest loves.

Limitations, boundaries, comfort zones, knowing when to stop, the point beyond which we do not go without hurting or getting hurt. All are created equal in order to keep us from destroying others and ourselves in the endless pursuit of happiness. Without a few basic guidelines for living happily ever after, the capacity to get lost, seriously hurt, or killed greatly magnifies.

Never fuck anyone you wouldn't want to be.

I want a hands-off rule on all my stuff. Including my bike." "Okay…" "And I want everyone to stop calling me Megan C Cups behind my back." Doug's jaw went slack as he flushed. "How did you know about that?" Megan raised her eyebrows. "All right, fine. Is that all?" Doug said.

An artist can try and pretend he is not following rules, but let's remember that nature itself provides rules. Gravity for instance.

population matters, distribution matters just as much because extremes of inequality push humanity beyond both sides of the Doughnut's boundaries.

If population matters, distribution matters just as much because extremes of inequality push humanity beyond both sides of the Doughnut's boundaries. Thanks to the scale of global income inequality, responsibility for global greenhouse gas emissions is highly skewed: the top 10 percent of emitters—think of them as the global carbonistas living on every continent—generate around 45 percent of global emissions, while the bottom 50 percent of people contribute only 13 percent.

I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.

The science of our time knows how to measure galaxies and split atoms, but it is incapable of the least investigation beyond the sensible world, so much so that outside its self-imposed but unrecognized limits it remains more ignorant than the most rudimentary magic