Quotes About Boundaries

Time and place are our own limitations, Andy; we mustn't impose them upon God.

when I begin to feel overwhelmed, I pull back. I have learned to say no. When I'm around someone who drains me, I put up a barrier—a nonphysical wall that keeps that person's negative energy away.

When you've been groomed to be compliant, confrontation in any form is uncomfortable because you were never taught that you have the right to say no; in fact, you were taught that you can't say no.

When I'm around someone who drains me, I put up a barrier—a nonphysical wall that keeps that person's negative energy away.

The long-term impact of being whupped—then forced to hush and even smile about it—turned me into a world-class people pleaser for most of my life. It would not have taken me half a lifetime to learn to set boundaries and say "no" with confidence had I been nurtured differently.

groomed to be compliant, confrontation in any form is uncomfortable because you were never taught that you have the right to say no; in fact, you were taught that you can't say no.

When you've been groomed to be compliant, confrontation in any form is uncomfortable because you were never taught that you have the right to say no; in fact, you were taught that you can't say no. The sense that you are deserving enough to set your own boundaries has been stolen from you. Many people react by burying their feelings of "no" and becoming people pleasers.

I fall in that category. For years, I would say yes to things I knew I really did not want to do, or avoid difficult conversations because I could not live with the discomfort of speaking up for myself. I've known other victims of trauma who sabotage situations until someone else says no for them—meaning their relationship ends, a friendship becomes toxic, or they lose a job. This is what I hear you saying when you talk about people who poison intimacy.

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

The many governments within a single metropolitan area are almost designed to fight among themselves because state law makes them largely dependent on locally raised tax revenues...People, pies, cars, rails, and the nebulous entity known as the economy might flow seamlessly across local boundaries, but sales and property tax dollars rarely do.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

former NSA director Michael Hayden: "Give me the box you will allow me to operate in. I'm going to play to the very edges of that box. . . . You, the American people, through your elected representatives, give me the field of play and I will play very aggressively in it.

How did he know that?" we ask. How did I lose control of who knows about my traumatic childhood, my penchant for tasteless humor, or my vacation to the Dominican Republic? You may know this feeling: you felt it when your mother friended you on Facebook, or on any other social networking site that used to be just you and your friends. Privacy violations are intrusions.

Never love anything that can't love you back.

W miejsce d?umy, co zala? mia?a ca?y ?wiat, a oczy?ci?a tylko plac pod nasz? budowl?, wzniecimy wielk? zaraz? idei, która morzem oczyszczaj?cego ognia rozleje si? po starym kontynencie, drwi?c z armij, kordonów i granic.

Das Unwirkliche ist das, was man untereinander nicht teilen kann. Was auch immer aus dieser Gemeinsamkeit herausfällt, das fällt aus dem Kreis menschlicher Angelegenheiten, geht über die Grenzen des menschlichen Theaters, über die Grenzen der Literatur hinaus.

The furious pace of drilling was driven by what was called the "rule of capture," a legal term roughly translated as finders keepers. Oil beneath the earth doesn't conform to the niceties of lease boundaries, and a well drilled beside a competitor's lease might well suck up oil from both. No matter. What you got, you kept. Those who tarried might end up with nothing. Thus, every well was a race.

As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself.

A lot of people, they want it all to be fuzzy and warm and cosmic, but it's no different with a horse than with a kid…You can't always be the kid's best friend. First you have to be the parent.

Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.

Quién puede trazar la línea donde termina el violeta y donde empieza el naranja en el arcoíris?

Il est des soirs de printemps dont le crépuscule outrepasse les limites que lui prescrit l'astronomie.

Distance is one of the most beautiful forms of respect

Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power