Quotes About Boundaries

Even Jesus gave people a dose of Vitamin No sometimes.

Christian Nice Girls, because they fear rejection, tend to get their feelings hurt when other people have good boundaries and say things like, "I'm busy right now. Let's look at next month.

You no longer have to deny your own needs and opinions to earn the love and approval of others. You don't ever have to again accept physical abuse, manipulation, sexual or financial exploitation, or keep unwanted secrets because you have no other choice. You have survived

When you accept delivery on truckloads of disrespectful treatment, you are teaching immature people that they can continue to misuse you.

By calling something a secret, we state our right not to reveal, to maintain privacy.

Don't make your ability to love yourself conditional on someone else's ability to love you.

Private thoughts, feelings, and moments are the currency of relationships. Give them their proper value by sharing them exclusively with the people who share your trust and love. (Goodbye Phone)

The smartphone is a gateway to endless work. Workers should have the right to close the gate. (Goodbye Phone)

Buy it for the lady who's about to become your mother-in-law, the one who's already trying to control your life and the lives of the three children she's already pressuring you to have. Give her the book one day out of nowhere, just as a nice surprise, and when she hugs you, calmly whisper: "Don't fuck with me, Ellen. Don't even think about it. Ever." Then smile at her like everything is wonderful. Because from now on, it will be.

Have less; do less; say no.

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

creating paradoxes that are clearly apparent on the border.

It was soon clear as we ground through traffic that though Calexico, California, was a small town, Mexicali, on the other side of the thirty-foot fence, was a city of a million people, with an international airport, a large cathedral, a bullring, two museums, hospitals, four universities, a dental school, several public libraries, and industrial areas, sprawling in the desert of Baja

In Cairo, there was a thin line between pestering and hospitality – indeed, they often amounted to the same thing, and although there were plenty of beggars there was little thievery.

But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

Love one another, but let's try not to possess one another.

But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.

Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.

That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you're not saying 'no' to yourself.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

You will only be loved and respected if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one.

You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone, if you do, you will be respected by no one.