Quotes About Boundaries

My heart is not available for hurt.

Be the love of your love, not the slave of your love.

When someone hurts you over and over, ask yourself, WHY DO YOU LET THEM?

Treat your advices like your money, don't give it to others unless they ask for it.

Never go tapping into the lives of others like you know them and their story! Their story is not yours, tell yours, for that is all you know.

You have an inbuilt goodness. Why should you allow some poisonous elements to destroy that goodness? Protect your goodness by any means. Stay away from the toxic people.

As you remove toxic people from your life, you free up space and emotional energy for positive, healthy relationships.

You do not own me. I do not own you.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

Standing in our power requires us to let go of the need to make others like us & instead stand committed to honoring ourselves.

I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me.

Mom went on to tell me, as we sat there, that she really believed your personal life was personal. Secrets, she felt, rarely explained or excused anything in real life, or were even all that interesting. People shared too much, she said, not too little. She thought you should be able to keep your private life private for any reason or for no reason.

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.

At Winchester we were discouraged from standing too close, from making, or seeking, personal disclosure. The other day I met a fellow Wykhamist - someone I'd known for forty years - and after the preliminaries, I said: 'Are you happy?'He took a pace back and squinted with surprise: 'Are you pulling my wire?' he said. 'That's none of your business'. At Winchester we were none of us each others business. We cracked on.

There's things in this world better let alone. Things sealed away and not meant to be looked upon. Lines better not crossed, and when you do cross em you got to take what comes.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

We reject the charge of tribalism, particularly from those whose theologies serve to buttress the most nefarious brand of tribalism of all—the omnipotent state. The church is the one political entity in our culture that is global, transnational, transcultural. Tribalism is not the church determined to serve God rather than Caesar. Tribalism is the United States of America, which sets up artificial boundaries and defends them with murderous intensity.

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

To understand creativity is to conquer the boundaries of time and space.

Sex is never between the lines. Between the sheets, yes, but not between the lines.