Quotes About Boundaries

When people pleasers go too far in their pleasant ways, they may inadvertently be guilty of encouraging others to continue in selfish or disrespectful behavior. Instead of receiving kind gestures with a spirit of gratitude, some people respond with an attitude of entitlement.

A boy who had learned to survive by silencing his voice had suddenly been given one, but was it his own voice he had been given, or the voice of God? Or was the voice of God within him, part of him? Had divine words really been planted inside him, or had his own words been an expression of the divine? Where did man end and God begin? What was this boundary so powerfully and briefly broken?

I am convinced there's a gramma gene that disables the word "no.

no matter how warm the relationship, there's always a certain etiquette when you deal with an in- law, a trace of formality.

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

But no one can deny that rigid gender education begins early on in life—from pink and blue color-coding of infant outfits to genderlabeling toys and games. And those who overstep these arbitrary borders are punished. Severely. When the steel handcuffs tighten, it is human bones that crack.

Strange to be exiled from your own sex to borders that will never be home

He inhabited a gray winter fog on a distant elk mountain where hunters are lost indefinitely and their own bones mark the boundaries.

He cried the relief he felt at finally seeing the pattern, the way all the stories fit together—the old stories, the war stories, their stories—to become the story that was still being told. He was not crazy; he had never been crazy. He had only seen and heard the world as it always was: no boundaries, only transitions through all distances and time.

Convert limitations into limits; limits into boundaries; boundaries into borders; and borders into passageways.

Saying "no" to yourself can be a way of saying "yes" to yourself.

The edges of my world are sharp, and they cut.

Will you treat people who make you miserable, as prison guards, or travel agents?

When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you.

When you put your foot down and say, "I will not allow myself or the kids to be treated this way anymore. It's destructive to me, to them, and to our marriage," you are not going against God by speaking the truth in love. You are standing for goodness, for truth, and for the healing and restoration of your marriage.

When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you. Here's

Contrary to what destructive people will say, the most loving thing we can do for them is hold them accountable for their actions. This indeed may cost us sacrifice and suffering. We do this not only for our benefit but with the hope that as we draw a line in the sand and say "no more" they will wake up to their own sinfulness and repent.

Jazz was way out front, clearing a path into a new era of truly free music, where the only limits were the musician's own consciousness and imagination, a music that cut across all boundaries yet still made perfect sense and swung like no music had ever swung before.

Don't use your bedroom for work, unless you're a prostitute.

she was smart enough to know whose problem that was, and it wasn't hers.

Toxic people cost us our energy and our ability to think clearly. So I'm saying ... let's get the toxic people out.

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a good deal faster than it does.

Every day you run the risk of neglecting your own purposes in the whirl of responding to other people's requests and concerns. This