Quotes About Boundaries

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

If you are too busy to read, you are too busy.

Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.

Whoever said Hell is other people was wrong. Hell is other people in your house .

The wild gatecrashes our civilised domains, and the domesticated escapes and runs riot. Weeds vividly demonstrate that natural life - and the course of evolution itself - refuse to be constrained by our cultural concepts. In doing so they make us look closely at the very idea of a divided creation.

If other people don't meet your needs, you have to be willing to walk out, since in the end that may well be the only one way to protect your interests.

Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me. (To re-election campaign manager Clark MacGregor)

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

There will always be people like that. Don't give them your time or your sanity.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

but you still can't get beyond your skin

Yes, emotions may be authentic, and authenticity is a modern virtue, but one can be authentic without being unnecessarily revealing.

He looked over at me now, his eyes wet. "Will you come and lay down with me first?" "Well, gee, Lyle . . . gee. Actually, I think Miss Manners would advise against it. I mean, with my lover waiting down in the car and all. I think you have a good bit to learn about timing—about the social graces. I'm pretty sure we'd both feel very, very bad afterwards. Also, these days I'm a bit overextended in that department.

I learned that I could draw the boundaries of my physical self inward, collapse the space I occupied and become a mote, a speck, an indifferent atom in its own peculiar orbit.

Psychologist and author Wendy Mogel urges parents to stick to a twenty-minute rule—spend no more than twenty minutes a day "thinking about your child's education or worrying about your child, period." Except in those cases when a child is having a significant academic or emotional problem, that's a good rule.

in avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations

I sent a quick text to Adrian: I have a hickey! You can't ever kiss me again. I honestly hadn't expected him to be awake this early, so I was surprised to get a response: Okay. I won't kiss you on your neck again. So typical of him. No! You can't ever kiss me ANYWHERE. You said you were going to keep your distance. I'm trying, he wrote back. But you won't keep your distance from me. I didn't dignify that with a response.

Do you love him?" There were only a few people in the world who could ask me such insanely personal questions without getting punched. Dimitri was one of them.

It doesn't matter. Take Eddie's blood. Take Belikov's blood. Take your own for all I care. But If she doesn't want to give hers, then that's all there is to it. She said no. This conversation is done.

We cannot road trip to Paris.

I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away and I'll show you.

Dimitri: "Rose, I'm seven years older than you. In ten years, that won't mean so much, but for now, it's huge. I'm an adult. You're a child." Rose: "You didn't seem to think I was a child when you were all over me." - Rose Hathaway & Dimitri Belikov (Vampire Academy)