Quotes About Boundaries

Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Don't feel bad removing people who love to create their own chaos. Your allegiance is to your peace of mind.

You do not need to be the designated driver of someone's intoxicated ego.

Don't feel guilty about saying no to the nonessentials in life! — simplicity is saying yes to joy by saying no to overmuch overwhelm overdoing overhaving overbeing

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between two.

Did it ever occur to you, Charlie, that tolerance can reach a point where it is no longer tolerance? When that happens, the noble-sounding attitude on which most of us pride ourselves degenerates into weakness and acquiescence.

Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Some people you can't be friends with, not when you've been something more.

Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.

Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating.

You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don't need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.

You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don't need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.

Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating.

The truth is whatever you can't escape.

Understand telling a Woman to "smile" is an imposition and a demand you have no right to make.

She is a woman who needs someone to take care of her, but it isn't going to be me.

Leave my copy alone. You don't know what you're doing.

It was the only free country left in the world," he once said, not talking about America but about rock'n'roll in America, or anywhere else. "No boundaries, no passports. There wasn't even a government.

Say "no" only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, "All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Like water, I have no skin...only surface tension. (Gretel Ehrlich)

Like water, I have no skin...only surface tension.

It's exhausting, tiptoeing around someone who barges into your life with good intentions.