Quotes About Boundaries

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Mama and Nathan lean on me a lot, but they give me a lot of rope, too. Maybe too much." "Maybe," I say. "I can shorten it for you.

It is also difficult to define the boundaries within which we judge inequality.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

I think we need to have a little talk, woman to skank.

Luca feels unmoored from the boundaries of time that have always existed.

married people were entitled to a certain measure of privacy, that they needn't tell each other everything.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

It is the conscious Breath that comes from the unnamable space where inspiration originates, and expiration returns—that space without boundaries, which we are sometimes fortunate enough to taste when silence reigns within us.

Crossing over the boundaries we've been taught to live within is a tough business. But I'm getting the idea they're not so formidable.

No one chooses to be overwhelmed, but they sure as heck allow it to happen.

Over-communication at work can create a new level of tasks and responsibilities.

The simple truth is, human beings have become a geological force on the planet, with the power to reshape the boundaries of the world in ways we didn't intend and don't entirely understand.

Why am I choosing to be with these people?" Consciously or unconsciously, you may be choosing to hold yourself back—to be less than you are capable of becoming. By the way, I think

Non volevo le loro voci nella mia mente, le loro idee su di me, le loro storie o i loro problemi personali. Perché avrebbero dovuto volere i miei?

But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental.

Marriage isn't a vow to stop being interested in other people; it's a commitment as to how to handle that interest.

Make good boundaries your goal. They are your right, your responsibility, your greatest source of dignity.

In short, you do not have to take the job that will create excessive stress and overarousal. Someone else will take it and flourish in it. You do not have to work long hours. Indeed, it may be your duty to work shorter ones. It may not be best to advertise it, but keeping yourself healthy and in your right range of arousal is the first condition for helping others.

It is true that even when exhausted you still are providing something to those you serve. But you are out of touch with your deepest strengths, role-modelling self-destructive behaviour, martyring yourself, and giving others cause for guilt.

codependent behaviors. Generally these are behaviors that are care taking of others to the point where you and your needs are lost.

One way to protect yourself is by not needing or wanting anything. If you expect nothing, you cannot be disappointed. And, if you don't want or need anything, you can avoid abusive reactions to your needs.