480 Quotes About Boundaries

In every one of your relationships, you are on a continuum between intimacy and separation. You stand on a slide that tilts you toward either intimacy or separateness. Exactly where you stand at any given moment is the result of your decisions, your feelings, how you handle situations, and the way you and the other person communicate.

When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.

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.

Whether we are running our home or studying or hunting or following any other sport, we should go to the very boundaries of pleasure but take good care not to be involved beyond the point where it begins to be mingled with pain.

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 miles away.

IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY THE GAME, THE BOUNDARIES AND RULES MUST BE COMMON

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

The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.

Boundary violations are deeply experienced.