Boundaries Quotes

I pride myself in being a kind, loving, caring and gentle person. But, that does not mean that I am weak or a “push over” and that I can be trampled underneath someone’s feet. No, most certainly not. I set my boundaries and no one, just no one is permitted to cross those lines.

~ Latika Teotia

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

~ Tara Brach

Tolerance is nothing more than patience with boundaries.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.

~ Henry Cloud

Boundaries are nothing more than imaginary lines drawn-up by delusional leaders and power hungry tyrants who wish to segregate the population into more easily controlled segments in any case. -If you really think about it logically, the only place where the Buddha can be born is within the hearts and minds of the truly enlightened, otherwise you’re simply wasting your time.

~ Andrew James Pritchard

Self Respect respects boundaries, yours or other's.Ego is so full of self, it sees no boundaries.

~ Drishti Bablani

By aggrandizing one's own abilities and achievements, the grandiose person remains out of touch with who they truly are and as such, remains prone to crossing the boundaries of others.

~ Steven Franssen

Now I've been criticized for advocating that people push their boundaries because sometimes people get caught. Sometimes people get fired. Sometimes people lose their jobs because of pushing the boundaries too far, but it's an interesting experience. They found they didn't want to stay within those limitations that they were pushing. Once people find they can survive outside the limits, they're much happier. They don't want to feel trapped. So I think we can urge people to push the boundaries as far as they can, and if they get in trouble, fine; that's not too bad if that's what they want to do.

~ Myles Horton

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

~ Elaine N. Aron

Honor those who inspire you, who show you the way. The teachers, artists , writers, the healers. Respect their time, their intellectual properties, their fee. They live a life of service, but this is also the way they make their living. This is how they feed, clothe and shelter themselves and their families. This is how they can continue to do their work in the world.

~ Eileen Anglin

People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn’t belong to them.

~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Let us go beyond the boundaries of right and wrong. Let us vanish in the beauty of love.

~ Debasish Mridha

Treating Abuse Today 3(4) pp. 26-33TAT: No. I don't know anymore than you know they're not. But, I'm talking about boundaries and privacy here. As a therapist working with survivors, I have been harassed by people who claim to be affiliated with the false memory movement. Parents and other family members have called or written me insisting on talking with me about my patients' cases, despite my clearly indicating I can't because of professional confidentiality. I have had other parents and family members investigate me -- look into my professional background -- hoping to find something to discredit me to the patients I was seeing at the time because they disputed their memories. This isn't the kind of sober, scientific discourse you all claim you want.

~ David L. Calof

If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.

~ Joyce Rachelle

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

~ Brian Andreas

Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn't make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don't do things your way. I care about me too.

~ Christine Morgan

All your problems and all the answers to those problems exist in the boundaries of your body.

~ Catherine Lacey

When you build a wall to protect yourself against one person be warned--everyone is now out there except for you.

~ Nakia R. Laushaul

We can cure the disease of intolerance. We must do it if the world is to survive. No us. No them. Just we.

~ Steve Goodier

That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only because we accept as real the boundary line between the opposites. It is, recall, the boundaries themselves which create the seeming existence of separate opposites. To put it plainly, to say that ultimate reality is a unity of opposites is actually to say that in ultimate reality there are no boundaries. Anywhere.

~ Ken Wilber

One must consider that small children are virtually incapable of making much impact on their world. No matter what path taken as achild, survivors grow up believing they should have done something differently.Perhaps there is no greater form ofsurvivor guilt than “I didn't try to stop it. Or “I should have told. The legacy of a helpless, vulnerable, out-of-control, and humiliated child creates an adult who is generally tentative, insecure, and quite angry. The anger is not often expressed, however, as it is not safe to be angry with violent people. Confrontation and conflict are difficult for many survivors.

~ Sarah E. Olson

A broken soul doesn't invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Don’t live a normal life by default, push the boundaries of your potential.

~ Steven Redhead

There is no boundary between heaven and earth unless we believe in one.

~ Leland Dirks

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.

~ William Blake

I walked up the stairs and hesitated at the open door.

~ Susan Hill

Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.

~ Asa Don Brown

It is extremely important to be able to make negative assertions. We must be able to say what is ‘not me’ in order to have a ‘me’. What we like has no meaning unless we know what we don’t like. Our yes has no meaning if we never say no. My chosen profession has no passion if ‘just anyone would do’. Our opinions and thoughts mean very little if there is nothing we disagree with.

~ Henry Cloud

Even with the desire for a better life, we can be reluctant to do the work of boundaries because it will be a war. The battle falls into two categories: outside resistance we get from others and the resistance we get from ourselves.

~ Henry Cloud

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.

~ Michael I. Bennett

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 your family, you need to take a close look at those relationships. You may be afraid of becoming an autonomous adult.

~ Henry Cloud

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 results…you become a doormat. We have actually trained others to do this when we will allow people to wipe their muddy feet on us. After all, we are doormats.

~ David W. Earle

Being able to say, “No,” is a necessary ingredient in a healthy lifestyle.

~ David W. Earle

Boundary violations are deeply experienced.

~ David W. Earle

What is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry?

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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 must take ourselves out of violating situations for the sake of our own wholeness.

~ Anne Katherine

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 and keep things that will harm us outside.

~ Henry Cloud

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.

~ Ellis Peters

Visionaries see beyond the boundaries of an eyesight.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

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 with those added twenty-eight million, there were fewer divorces in 1960 than there had been a decade earlier. People did not have children unless they were married—only 2.5 percent of children were born out of wedlock, though the number in black households was disturbingly high—some 20 percent.

~ Jeff Greenfield