Quotes About Boundaries

Lady Jane held the English view that visitors like to be left to themselves.

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

Impara le regole come un professionista, in modo da poterle rompere come un artista.

The main thing is: Don't take any shit. That's the main thing. The unmain thing is: You are not going to figure anything out except how to get other people to take shit, so forget about everything except not taking any yourself.

When I decided to leave was when I learned and accepted that I can't change people, I can't save people, only love them. I can only change myself and my circumstances

Dear Reader, that a sense of privacy is the best gift I ever gave myself.

It's useless to obsess over one standard of beauty, since it can change as soon as you cross a border. My travels have taught me this: The world can't decide what's beautiful. So you decide, okay?

If he'd learned nothing else at the Slade he'd learned that men and women could be friends, even intimate friends, without sex intruding.

privacy sacrificed without intimacy being gained.

A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.

The past was one country where I tried to limit the number of free trips.

Help them, but don't make friends with them.

The moral is: stay alone. Any idea of any close relationship should be imaginary, like any story I am writing. This way no harm is done to me or to any other person.

She didn't want a husband. She certainly didn't want a husband who never spoke to her, much less consulted her wishes. She didn't want any man who would take over her life and tell her what she could or could not do and expect more from her than she was prepared to give. She'd had enough of that. But

Mary didn't know just what prompted her answer. She was the most candid of women, but you don't tell a man everything where another woman is concerned.

Let's love ourselves so much that we won't permit our enemies to control our happiness, our health, and our looks

The Bible is the unique written Word of God. It is inerrant in its original form and infallible in all of its forms for the purpose of guiding you into a life-saving relationship with God in His kingdom. The Bible contains a body of knowledge without which human beings cannot survive. It reliably fixes the boundaries of everything God will ever say to humankind.

Too often our "love" for family members is domination in disguise.

If you love the unlovable, let another person's desires take precedence over your own, or even worse, love someone who has hurt you, then you are likely love addicted, codependent, and emotionally unhealthy.

Love is a private thing; the world does not need to know every detail.

Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

reckon it was some combination of these things, the feeling that I was separated from the rest of the people of earth by an invisible wall, like a fish in an aquarium.

Some of us center our lives around other people's feelings; we try to make them happy. But since you can't control your feelings, how can you possibly fix the feelings of others? The plain truth is that feeling responsible for someone else's unhappiness (or happiness) is simply not realistic

Sometimes there is a thin line separating orthodox zeal from apostasy,' said Father Lenar Hoyt