Quotes About Boundaries

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Good parenting requires three elements: nurturing, limit setting, and guidance.

Learning to listen relationally, listen with cool heads and clear boundaries, listen with the quietness of the heart and the gentleness of the body, means having a self so developed it can afford to yield.

I was doing it again, and I do NOT ogle strangers.

Stretching oneself too thin is the disease of modern life — letting oneself get too thick, the other.

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

Love does not mean she gets to ride the bulldozer while you lay in the street.

Part of the oddity of marriage, she thought, was in how unwise it was to attend too intently to the other person. In order for love to survive, you had to close yourself off to a certain extent.

In order for love to survive, you had to close yourself off to a certain extent.

Careful what you tell people.

as if she were still the endangered School girl who had to please everyone to feel safe. Never saying "No" to others meant constantly saying "No" to herself.

In the new Europe, in any case, nationalism is something of an anomaly, given that the drive is to the elimination of national boundaries and national sovereignty.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

If the first thing you do when you wake up is reach for your phone, the signal you are sending your brain is that the needs of others –the messages on your phone –are more important than your own needs.

Binding your self-worth to other people is a recipe for disaster.