Quotes About Boundaries

And when it comes to relationships, we're so demanding that we're making them near impossible.

What we don't realize is that this sense of feeling better costs the other person. It is their energy that we have stolen. Most people go through their lives in a constant hunt for someone else's energy.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

doing everything ourselves isn't heroic—it's toxic.

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

Dia mesti mencamkan bahwa tak seorang pun berhak dinilai atau dihakimi berdasarkan korespondensi pribadinya.

Just because I want to bury my face between your breasts and stay there for a fortnight doesn't mean I want to marry you.

I am not a people pleaser. I am not a person who says things because she thinks it will make the other person happy, nor am I a person who offers things she cannot deliver because I want the other person to like me.

You must work to live, not live to work.

Put it like this: show me a man who knows how to treat a woman like dirt, and I will faint with delight at his feet and allow him to treat me like the doormat he so clearly wants me to be.

Other people's behavior is none of my business.

She is too old to share her space with people she does not know, too set in her ways to share her space even with people she does.

Other people's behavior is non of my business.

One person can't be expected to fulfill all your needs; that's just unreasonable." "True

you don't have to wait for someone to treat you badly repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

Cities are full of people with whom, from your viewpoint, or mine, or any other individual's, a certain degree of contact is useful or enjoyable; but you do not want them in your hair. And they do not want you in theirs either.

If you want to leave the park and your child isn't ready to go, give her a hug and say, "You're really upset right now. I know you want to stay, but it's time to leave." Then hold your child and let her experience her feelings before you move on to the next activity. If you were instead to pamper your child by letting her stay at the park longer, she doesn't have the opportunity to learn from experience that she can survive disappointment.

You can't make another person treat you with respect, but you can treat yourself with respect. Walking away is treating yourself with respect—and

For all actions merge one into the other, and none are truly independent; and all units merge one into the other, and all boundaries shift, and are arbitrarily chosen. Boundaries are the results of the limitations of perception, for a unit seems to end where perception of it ceases.

For it began to occur to him that one way to become private was to respect another's privacy.

You may adore Love You Forever, but I hear it as a story about an overbearing and smothering mother who infantilizes her son and can only tell him she loves him when he is fast asleep. I also contend that she drugs his cocoa. And that when the man's baby daughter wakes up sixteen years later and finds him fondling her in her room, she will be calling 911 and going into therapy.