125 quotes found
“When you build a wall to protect yourself against one person be warned--everyone is now out there except for you.”
“That all oppositessuch as mass and energy, subject and object, life and deathare so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is onl...”
“A broken soul doesn't invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy.”
“Dont live a normal life by default, push the boundaries of your potential.”
“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.”
“I walked up the stairs and hesitated at the open door.”
“Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.”
“Believing in your standards for a square deal, even when there's no way to get it, is what allows you to create boundaries and take independent action.”
“If you have never questioned set boundaries, or experienced conflict with your family members, you may not have an adult-to-adult connection with your family. If you have no other best friends than...”
“The truth is, we tend to train people how we want to be treated. If others know you have wishy-washy boundaries then they are free to walk all over you; the resultsyou become a doormat. We have act...”
“Being able to say, No, is a necessary ingredient in a healthy lifestyle.”
“Boundary violations are deeply experienced.”
“The longer we stay in a violating situation, the more traumatized we become. If we don't act on our own behalf, we will lose spirit, resourcefulness, energy, health, perspective, and resilience. We...”
“Boundaries help us to distinguish our property so that we can take care of it. They help us to "guard our heart with all diligence." We need to keep things that will nurture us inside our fences an...”
“Questions are as supple as willow wands, it's easy to brush by them and slip them aside, and no one the worse for it.”
“It was more than just material prosperity. America in 1960 was a country where restraint and boundaries were the natural conditions in all arenas. People married younger and stayed married; even wi...”
“The growth of intimacy will teach us how to loveboth ourselves and the other person. If we will allow ourselves to practice the skills of intimacy, we will learn to love. Boundaries protect love an...”
“Normally, he liked boundaries. Boundaries were the safety net. Boundaries kept people on the right path. But right now, he felt like rules were made to be broken and consequences were miles and mil...”
“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.”
“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.”
