Quotes About Boundaries

Turn away from the things you don't love and don't give them any feeling, because they are fine as they are but they have no place in your life.

Turn away from the things you don't love and don't give them any feeling, because they are fine as they are but they have no place in your life.

Pero no puedes crear la vida de otras personas. No puedes pensar por ellas, y si intentas inculcar tus opiniones a los demás, sólo conseguirás atraer fuerzas semejantes hacia Ti. Deja que los demás creen la vida que deseen.

You cannot create other people's lives for them.

The child who knows his parents have sturdy end stops will not have to push and test to find the limits and boundaries.

A child who perpetually pesters her parents is still searching for the limits she needs to grow straight. Her demanding and disruptive behavior is, to a great degree, meant to test you, to find out what outrageous action will finally get you to react—constructively.

Being an unspoiling parent is a lot of work. But it is a small price to pay for an unspoiled child.

Today's parents tend to be uncomfortable with their authority.

Stop treating your child as royalty whose every want must be met. Teach your child to turn demands into polite requests.

Allowing children open access to every aspect of parents' lives can make for children who simply cannot bear the idea of their parents having experiences, relationships, and more that exclude them.

I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.

It takes a special sort of mindset and worldview to insist, despite compelling or contradictory evidence, that the mechanistic paradigm of reality must be true and accurate, and that nothing can exist beyond the boundaries of physical reality.

Grandma saved herself a lot of bother by not being the kind of person you question.

You live between three trees. One is behind you. The Lote - the tree of life for your Persian ancestors. The tree at the boundary of the seventh heaven, that none may pass. Ah, but engineers have no use for the past, do they?

This life form thing was breathtakingly beautiful. As he stared at it, he found himself being pulled out of the human world into a world where moral boundaries blur and finally dissolve completely. He was lost in wonder and admiration, even though he knew that he was the prey.

Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely give men mandates, signposts, scaffolding and appealing images that tend to create religious identity and boundaries, but from the outside.

Human strength is defined in asserting boundaries. God, it seems, is in the business of dissolving boundaries. So we enter into paradox—what's Three is one and what's One is three. We just can't resolve that, and so we confuse unity with uniformity.

Traveling the road of healthy religion and true contemplation will lead to calmly held boundaries, which need neither to be defended constantly nor abdicated in the name of "friendship." This road is a "narrow road that few travel upon" these days (Matt. 7:14). It is what many of us like to call "the Third Way": the tertium quid that emerges only when you hold the tension of opposites.

It takes therapists years to achieve the same result and reestablish appropriate boundaries from wounding parents and early authority figures, and to heal the inappropriate shame in those who have been wounded. We all must leave home to find the real and larger home

People who know who they are find it the easiest to know who they aren't.

Cesar Milan, the "dog whisperer," says that dogs cannot be peaceful or teachable if they have no limits set to their freedom and their emotions. They are actually happier and at rest when they live within very clear limits and boundaries, with a "calm and assertive" master. My dog, Venus, is never happier and more teachable than when I am walking her, but on her leash. Could it be the same for humans at certain stages?

Don't expect or demand from groups what they usually cannot give. Doing so will make you needlessly angry and reactionary. They must and will be concerned with identity, boundaries, self-maintenance, self-perpetuation, and self-congratulation. This is their nature and purpose.

It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.

Come sit on my lap. I want to hear all about your sexual harassment lunch. -Hank to his secretary, Rachel