Quotes About Boundaries

However much we might sympathize or agree with EPA's policy objectives, EPA may act only within the boundaries of its statutory authority.

I'm not under obligation to provide information to everyone that wants it when they want it.

Even on Facebook, like, I wouldn't share everything with my friends, because that's obnoxious.

Gossips are fine if they are within limits. But they shouldn't be obnoxious.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

Occasionally, we would shoot something and think, 'This is it; we are over the line.' But the test audiences didn't have a problem with it.

There's an old Talmudic belief that you build a fence around an impulse. If that's not good enough, you build a fence around the fence.

Nobody is ever really free, Gary. As long as you live with another human being, you're not free.

cannot prevent birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.

The Bridge Between now and now, between I am and you are, the word bridge. Entering it you enter yourself: the world connects and closes like a ring. From one bank to another, there is always a body stretched: a rainbow. I'll sleep beneath its arches.

Those who give too much are always expected to give more, and blamed when they reach the point of refusal.

You teach people how to treat you.

As women we've been programmed to sacrifice everything in the name of what is good and right for everyone else. Then if there's an inch left over, maybe we can have a piece of that. We need to deprogram ourselves. I know for sure that you can't give what you don't have. If you allow yourself to be depleted to the point where your emotional and spiritual tank is empty and you're running on fumes of habit, everybody loses. Especially you.

O que eu sei de verdade é que você não pode dar o que não tem. Se permitir que a suguem até o seu tanque emocional e espiritual ficar quase vazio e ainda continuar queimando combustível por puro hábito, todos sairão perdendo. Sobretudo você.

Getting sucked into other people's ego dysfunction & darkness robs you of your own light.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?

He can have friends. It's parents he can't have.

There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules.

The piggies were not to be disturbed-

Do you think we're making a mistake? snapped the Bishop. Not at all, said Dom Cristao. I think we've taken a step toward something truly magnificent. But humankind almost never forgives true greatness. Fortunately, said the Bishop, humankind isn't the judge that matters. And now I intend to pray for this boy, since medical science has obviously reached the boundary of its competence.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. My wife. My friend. My lover.

Don't press her," said Cooper. "If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don't insist on his saying it.

If you try to look up my skirt, I'll poke needles in your eyes right through your eyelids while you're asleep.' 'I'm looking for help, you give me nightmares, thank you so much.' She was on the top step now, reaching up for a bin marked DRY BEANS. Rigg looked up her skirt, mostly because she told him not to, and saw nothing at all of interest. He could never understand why Nox and other women, too, were always so sure men wanted to see whatever it is they concealed under their clothes.