Quotes About Boundaries

Letting go doesn't mean not caring, it means not taking responsibility for what other people do, feel or think.

A cat can be great company if you're a cat person. If you're not, well, let's just say that you shouldn't go there.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

If you take on too much, your overcommitted schedules will become monsters that interfere with my agenda for you.

Religions are confluences of organic-cultural flows that intensify joy and confront suffering by drawing on human and supra-human forces to make homes and cross boundaries.(p. 54)

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which set bounds to the passions

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which sets bounds to the passions

Although I often give in to my daughter, she is fully aware that I am the only one at home who will discipline her if she is naughty.

As a mother, I don't want any girl twerking near my kid at a bat mitzvah.

But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

Everybody feels they have been trespassed upon, and nearly everybody has trespassed on somebody else, maybe not intentionally.

If you had a hobby, family, or wanted to do things besides work - you should join VMware. We didn't have nearly as long hours as Google given our customers worked normal business hours.

I don't go to a lot of other directors' sets; directors don't come to mine. Directors are all very cordial with each other, but they're not necessarily friendly.

I don't necessarily want people to know all my intimate feelings about Tracey.

It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.

Kissing a new hero isn't acceptable to me, especially when it's not necessary.

I don't see the necessity to be friends with anyone you've dated, but definitely out of respect of the time, you have to be kind of respectful, and that's what I try to do.

Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity.

I'm independent. If a guy is too clingy or needy, I actually get afraid of hurting him - and I can't deal with that.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

From the neighborhoods that we grew up in, we had to learn how to deal with people. How to keep certain people at a distance, how to cut people off completely.

I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't make dates with them. I don't have to.