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Quotes About Boundaries

Words are intimacy she won't allow and he would not dare ask for.
~ Melina Marchetta
Not just a name but a state of mind I never want to revisit, although I do keep him at the back of my mind for those times I get my hopes raised about something. So then I can slap myself into reality and remind myself of what happens when you let someone into your sacred space.
~ Melina Marchetta
The moment he sees a glimpse of underwear, he will be officially in Sicko Land and he will be forced to make some kind of noise. Flushing, coughing, heavy footsteps. Talk to himself out loud. The moment he sees anything that in anyway will be considered a sexual act between. . . "Stani, the bins are done!" he yells out.
~ Melina Marchetta
You cannot be with someone just because you don't want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Friends don't look at each other the way you and that guy Ryan do. Friends don't smile and tease, and try to make some kind of bodily contact with one another at every available opportunity.
~ Unknown
Because if you even make a tiny bit of room in either of those places for anyone else, then something in your relationship isn't right.
~ Unknown
I need to check in with Seth before I--" he burrowed his face into the side of her neck, his breath almost painfully warm on her throat--"give in to my unconscionable desire to put my hands on you properly.
~ Melissa Marr
You're killing me here, Ash. Good, she said. She'd bend a few rules, but they both knew she wasn't going to push him beyond where he chose to go. Love wasn't to be based on trickery. But reminding him what he's refusing isn't trickery.
~ Melissa Marr
What if I want more?" "I'm sorry, but there isn't more to have
~ Unknown
I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.
~ Melody Beattie
I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.
~ Melody Beattie
The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.
~ Melody Beattie
I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only one who can truly victimize me is myself, and 99 percent of the time I choose to do that no more. But I need to continue to remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too.
~ Melody Beattie
We rescue people from their responsibilities. We take care of people's responsibilities for them. Later we get mad at them for what we've done. Then we feel used and sorry for ourselves. That is the pattern, the triangle.
~ Melody Beattie
The formula is simple: In any given situation, detach and ask, "What do I need to do to take care of myself?
~ Melody Beattie
So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson
To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying
~ Mercedes Lackey
The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
~ Mercedes Lackey
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~ Unknown
The normal guardrails of healthy emotional boundaries were never constructed inside me. I think it's normal that I feel what Emily feels. Better than normal: I believe tuning into other people's emotions is my secret superpower. I can bend steel with my bare hands. I can find a way in. I am CAPTAIN EMPATHY—able to intuit feelings like Superman leaps tall buildings.
~ Unknown
Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.
~ Mia Couto
A viagem não começa quando se percorrem distâncias, mas quando se atravessam as nossas fronteiras interiores. A viagem acontece quando acordamos fora do corpo, longe do último lugar onde podemos ter casa.
~ Mia Couto
A viagem não começa quando se percorrem distâncias, mas quando se atravessam as nossas fronteiras interiores.
~ Mia Couto
I am sick to death of you just saying your last words and taking off as if I haven't the right to end our conversations.
~ Unknown