Quotes About Boundaries

Dont sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much theres nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.

You can choose your friends, but not your relatives.

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

I tell myself that I tolerate Kimmy because she could never survive me even once talking to her the way she talks to me. I hate people like that, people you have to protect while they keep hurting you.

Why should you feel guilty if you refuse to be intimidated by [someone] who persists in standing in the way of your being that best self or who is "hurt" when you finally manage it? . . . The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be. No one owns you, no matter what your relationship.

Quanto mais as pessoas que fazem parte de nossa vida tiverem sido acusadas, punidas ou forçadas a sentirem-se culpadas por não fazerem o que os outros pediram, mais provavelmente elas levarão essa bagagem a todo relacionamento posterior e ouvirão em cada solicitação uma exigência.

Yes, I can handle your telling me what I did or didn't do, And I can handle your interpretations, but please don't mix the two.

I'd suggest the best time to interrupt is when we've heard one word more than we want to hear.

In this stage, which I refer to as emotional slavery, we believe ourselves responsible for the feelings of others. We think we must constantly strive to keep everyone happy. If they don't appear happy, we feel responsible and compelled to do something about it. This can easily lead us to see the very people who are closest to us as burdens.

We should love our friends, but not so much that it encroaches upon our love of God, which must be primary.

If we always express our opinion, no matter how hurtful or noncontributory it may be, we are exercising our right to be "me.

Never wrestle with a pig—because you both get dirty but the pig loves it

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

The way that other people judge me is none of my business.

This was not the velvet embracing desert sky at El Geneina; this was infinite space. The idea of no boundaries, no end, is terrifying in the abstract and much worse if you are looking at it. The far-off stars were an icy crust; the darkness beyond the stars was more than I could handle. The machinery that keeps me going is not geared to cope with infinity and eternity as so clearly displayed in that sky.

I have learned, even though I have been cloistered from the world so long, that no man really looks with favour upon the one who gives him favour, unasked.

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people, that she must not rock the boat for any reason, you are not strengthening her prosocial sense;you are damaging it--and the first person she will stop protecting is herself.

No hugging," I warned her. It was in our contract.

recharge my ability to cope with humans at close quarters without losing my mind.

I yelled, "No!" which I'm not supposed to do; I'm always supposed to speak respectfully to the clients, even when they're about to accidentally commit suicide.