Boundaries Quotes
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"Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change."
"If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them."
"Love knows no boundaries. I wish I would have known that before I hired a cartographer to map out my romantic territory."
"When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice."
"The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss."
"No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others."
"Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories."
"Keep in mind that it is one life we are given to live. One life in which we can create beautiful memories and dream, magnificent dreams. So create without boundaries, give life to your dreams; don't allow yourself to be dismayed by others or situations. Realize your own greatness, value yourself. Value the life given to you and hold fast to your own precious ideals and self worth."
"Tolerance is nothing more than patience with boundaries."
"You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours on them."
Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
"Boundaries and risk management are very important parts of living a healthy and positive life."
Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
"The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom."
Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"You can'tassume i'min bad shapejust becausei've run out ofthe energy toimpressyou."
"I want to hear the wind in the trees. Feel the sun warm my back. I want to see birds fly in a sky with no boundaries."
"To cherish my purity and set boundaries are, in my opinion, the highest forms of feminism—a woman who saves her body proves she is strong and secure enough to resist the men who seek to claim her, that she’s more than what lies between her legs."
"To enjoy the beauty of the world, don’t try to fit in. Try to fly out of your perceived boundaries."
"War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides."
"One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about thin-lipped heroes flying over mysterious viny jungles toward untold wonders? That's what you wanted to write about, about what you didn't know. So. What mysterious time and place don't we know?", December 31, 1989)]"
"The best traveler is one without a camera."
"One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about thin-lipped heroes flying over mysterious viny jungles toward untold wonders? That's what you wanted to write about, about what you didn't know. So. What mysterious time and place don't we"
"Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relationship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose."
"If you fear that defending your boundaries is being controlling, don't worry. There is a difference between being controlling and having boundaries. Controlling people is about telling them what to do. Setting boundaries is about saying what you do or do not want to happen to you."
"If we're highly empathetic and emotionally sensitive we're at greater risk of becoming involved with a manipulator."
"Beware of relationships that substitute intensity for emotional intimacy."
"Selfishness is self-absorption, self-seeking behaviour that either disregards the rights and needs of others or tramples them deliberately in favour of personal gain."
"Abuse can take many forms. It always involves a boundary violation, although every boundary violation is not necessarily abuse."
"Many of us find it hard to set boundaries and defend them because we fear doing so will cause rejection or abandonment. We may avoid confrontations to make things easier. We may feel guilt if we say no or if we think we might hurt someone's feelings. We fear boundaries will keep us from being loved."
"Boundaries protect the things that are of value to you. They keep you in alignment with what you have decided you want in life. That means the key to good boundaries is knowing what you want."
"The most basic boundary-setting word is “no.” It lets others know that we exist apart from them and that we are in control of ourselves."
"Boundaries are easier to manage when your values are well-defined."
Joe Jordan, Sharpen Your Life: 52 Strategic Moments to Create a Lifetime of Success
"Do not let your boss, your spouse, your kids, your neighbors, or anyone push you around or walk all over you. This does not mean you need to be a butt-hole - but you may need to draw some clear lines for the people in your life. Want to do it right? Communicate expectations clearly, and consistently. People cannot treat you the way you want them to treat you unless you tell them HOW to treat you."
"Recognizing that the boundaries of the market are ambiguous and cannot be determined in an objective way lets us realize that economics is not a science like physics or chemistry, but a political exercise... If the boundaries of what you are studying cannot be scientifically determined, what you are doing is not a science."
Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
"We think that boxes take everything that’s bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in."
"Sometimes it's about standing in your power."
Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
"The mold we give to our lives is so that there will be no cataclysms. The order we seek we are willing to surrender to the flow of life at any time, but it is there as a brake on a car, and our health is a brake. We put brakes on, against our temperament. he said, “Even a room, arranged in a certain manner, prevents certain things from taking place in it."
"This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe."
"Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me has now become a labyrinth that is set to destroy me. And laying spent in the rubble, I finally realize that there is only one fortress and I cannot create it because there is only one God."
"Insatiable is my desire for you, Insane is my love you,Limitless are my boundaries for you, True are my feelings for you,Wildest are my imaginations for you, Intense is my passion for you,Soul is my offering for you, Commitment is my promise to you,"
"All your problems and all the answers to those problems exist in the boundaries of your body."
"Let's make room for the kind of art that challenges us, pushes boundaries, stirs and inspires, and takes our breath away with its uniqueness. Let's reconnect with our artist souls and trust that if we make good art, we'll make good money."
Teresa R. Funke, Bursts of Brilliance for a Creative Life blog
"You are the gatekeeper to your life and your home. You get to decide who or what comes in and what needs to stay out. If it doesn't contribute to the peaceful home you are now trying to have, then it should stay out."
Jen Grice, You Can Survive Divorce: Hope, Healing, and Encouragement for Your Journey
"I am infinite. I only create my boundaries with my thoughts."
"every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage."
Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
"As I acknowledge the boundaries within myself, I am given plenty of opportunities to reinforce them."
Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
"A life lived without borders is a life lived in captivity"
"Certainly, child rearing requires many different interventions. There are times for helping, for not getting involved, or for being strict, But the real issue is this: Is what you are going being done on purpose? Or are you doing it from reasons that you do not think about, such as your own personality, childhood, need of the moment, or fears?"
"If you do not forgive, you are demanding something your offender does not choose to give, even if it is only confession of what he did. This "ties" him to you and ruins boundaries. Let the dysfunctional family you came from go. Cut it loose, and you will be free."
Henry Cloud, Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
"I hated this love that I had for my family—love that demanded my time and energy, that sought to control my life down to every thought and action.I now realize that it was not love but an unhealthy attachment, born out of a need for security and a sense of duty."
"The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you."
"Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin."
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