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Quotes About Boundaries

Emotional self-defense...Those who care so much, maybe too much, know that it takes wisdom and courage to sometimes say, "no" to others.
~ Steve Maraboli
Crossing the limit is not my styleMy footsteps meander less than a mileI travel the world perhaps in a minuteYet a dream, to me, is never infinite!
~ Munia Khan
There is a depth to life which only comes from our connection to other people. However, we have to find it without becoming a prisoner.
~ Donna Goddard, Waldmeer
Wisdom defines the limits of one's knowledge and responsibility pushes one beyond those limits
~ Val Uchendu
Nowadays, the concept of love is greatly trampled because there is too much permissibility.
~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz
The limit in life is the only limit you set.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
To succeed, you have to say 'no' more often than you say 'yes'. This is easier when you have a definite purpose or clarity on the desired outcome.
~ Mensah Oteh
Discipline yourself to shut the door of your mind on people, events, or things that pull you down, drain your mental or emotional energy, and try to rob you of your promise of the future.
~ Mensah Oteh
Sometimes the only way to gain someone's favor is to stop giving them yours.
~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
There is always an inside from outside the door
~ Munia Khan
Never share your most important secret with a person in deep love, for the partner will get to hear of it." -Oppong Amankwaa
~ Oppong Amankwaa
How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to 'draw the line, ' and we showed up with an eraser?
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
If you response to every demand, you will be in despair.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I wish for you the wisdom to mind your own business.
~ Steve Maraboli
Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.
~ Ibn Taymiyyah
Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.
~ Indira Gandhi
Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'
~ Helen Mirren
Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.
~ Sylvie Guillem
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
~ Shonda Rhimes
I believe that there is a certain amount of mysticism that all women should have, that you should never tell all your secrets, that you should never tell everybody all about you.
~ Stevie Nicks
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.
~ Roberto Cavalli
Don't get bogged down by life and other people's problems or hang ups.
~ Angela Merkel