125 quotes found
“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 ...”
“Saying yes comes very easily to me and, more often than not, I get into situations that could have been avoided by using the magical two letter word, NO. Then I sit back and regret having said yes ...”
“If you spend your life sparing peoples feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you cant distinguish what should be respected in them.”
“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 worldthat is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with famil...”
“A life lived without borders is a life lived in captivity”
“This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.”
“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 d...”
“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 dysfunct...”
“I hated this love that I had for my familylove 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 ...”
“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.”
“If no one has boundarieshow can there be any transgression?”
“Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.”
“Healthy people have healthy boundaries. Unhealthy people, well, lets not get into that. Its like this: some people have walls which means they let no one in. This equals unhealthy. Some people let ...”
“It is not about proving anything to the world. It is all about proving your capabilities to yourself and stretching your own boundaries.”
“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 abou...”
“God is gathering a small number of chosen people who will live within the boundaries these times”
“Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage tolove ourselves,even when we risk disappointing others.”
“We were born to be free, to expand our horizons by going where we have never gone before, and not to hang out in the relative comfort and safety of the nest, the known. There is a place within us t...”
