Quotes About Boundaries

I spent my youth building this wall to keep dangerous things away. I sometimes wonder now if I've kept them inside.

Just as coaddicts sometimes make addicts into "parents," coaddicts will treat addicts as "another child in the family.

Boundaries are limits where you are not being taken advantage of in an unfair manner.

Assertiveness is asking for what you want, turning others down, and making decisions that are right for you without anger, threats, manipulation, or fear of repercussions.

Fourth: immune people. Everyone has safe people whom they actually don't really drain with and whom they feel absolute safety with. For some,

It's your right to not justify your behavior with excuses. You don't have to give reasons or agree to things you don't want to do because you're worried that your reason doesn't seem good enough. If you don't want to attend an event because you want to spend quality time with your dog, that's valid and no one can judge. You don't owe someone something just because your justification doesn't align with their values.

Follow this simple rule to break out of this behavior pattern: don't share your opinion unless asked.

When you say no firmly and with confidence, people end up putting more value on your yes.

Finally, one great benefit of mastering "no" is that you give yourself so much more time and energy to pursue what you really care about, i.e. all those things you can say a hearty and resounding yes to!

Part of social success as an introvert is seeing your social battery extended and increased, so actively making the choice to look around and think about who you can introduce yourself to – that's going to push your boundaries and make you more capable of seizing the opportunities that you might miss out on otherwise.

I led as secret a life from my parents as I possibly could'.

waste our lives moving in a circle, in the most constricted space. We sacrifice all freedom.

Is it not a shame," she says, "that we must wait until the end of the world for all boundaries to fall?

How did there get to be 'sides'? You said the guards were on our 'side'. How did that happen? How did I end up on a 'side'? —I can't really explain. Things just happen. Over time, they accumulate. Bad attracts bad. Good attracts good. Eventually there are sides. The members flux, sometimes the boundaries are gray. Good and bad are sometimes not the point. It happens.

BRIT MANDELO The Finite Canvas

Arthur liked limbo. He thrived on it. He'd built a life around fuzzy boundaries, overlapping identities, conflicts of interest. Limbo was his element.

The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once observed that, 'for the majority of the human species, and for tens of thousands of years, the idea that humanity includes every human being on the face of the earth does not exist at all. The designation stops at the border of each tribe, or linguistic group, sometimes even at the edge of a village.

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other is to lend.

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

Today,' Elodin said brightly, 'we will talk about things that cannot be talked about. Specifically, we will discuss why some things cannot be discussed.

Asking to hold a musician's instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man's wife.

Vashet shook a finger and cuffed the young girl on the side of her head. It was the same scolding any child receives. Stay out of the neighbor's garden. Don't tease the Bentons' sheep. Don't play tag among the thousand spinning knives of your people's sacred tree.

No, no me molesta que me lo preguntes —repuso el anciano—. Siempre que a ti no te moleste que no te conteste.

Hasta el mejor de los perros muerde cuando se cansa de que lo maltraten.