Quotes About Boundaries

Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.

I am only (lim.it.ed), limited by what I believe is possible.

No one has the right to shake his finger in your face.

Today I don't have to fit into anyone else's emotional atmosphere.

You don't have to let yourself be terrorized by other people's expectations of you.

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.

If you are a happy person, don't spend your time trying to make an unhappy person happy. Near as I can tell, you have to be a magician to pull it off.

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

But sometimes it is necessary to do that which is too much.

Sometimes staying strong means not putting yourself in uncomfortable or triggering situations.

It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal.

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

You have to create boundaries of space and then you have to create boundaries of time.

The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.