Quotes About Boundaries

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

It does, Tennyson, because there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There's a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you're on the wrong side of both lines.

You allow people to treat you the way they do. Your energy, confidence and attitude is the currency that others will transact with.

Being a slave to a fellow human being, many times, starts with giving his opinion more weight than you should.

If you want to say no, be firm and direct.

I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.

Be friends first when you're dating. If it turns into something more, that's awesome, and if not you have another friend.

Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.

It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers].

I think you should not limit yourself to dating somebody older or younger.

We have Kenjii. We have my cell phone. Since we aren't officially dating, I'm sure you'll agree that's all the protection we need.

I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

You can't please everyone and trying to do so is the kiss of death.

Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

Wise companions learn to seek out the delicate balance between offering help and offering too much help.

The church marched into his heart. Williams never abandon Anglicanism; he pushed at its borders.

Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.

A healthy boundary creates controlled vulnerability.

Recovery from codependence is a lot like a growing up process - we must learn to do the things our dysfunctional parents did not teach us to do: appropriately esteem ourselves, set functional boundaries, be aware of and acknowledge our reality, take care of our adult needs and wants, and experience our reality moderately.

Not knowing how to be moderate is possibly the most visible symptom of codependence to other people. (...) In other words codependents simply don't appear to understand what moderation is. They are either totally involved or totally detached, totally happy or absolutely miserable, etc. The codependent believes a moderate response to a situation isn't enough. Only too much is enough.