480 Quotes About Boundaries

I'm listening to my son right now.

The growth of intimacy will teach us how to love—both ourselves and the other person. If we will allow ourselves to practice the skills of intimacy, we will learn to love. Boundaries protect love and intimacy. Certain behaviors support the integrity of intimacy. Other behaviors, harm, disrupt, or reverse, intimacy. By using skills that promote intimacy, boundaries are created that protect the relationship.

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

When teaching someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary, and more from the way the boundary is established.

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

Man has drawn artificial lines on the chest of the Mother Earth, which have no significance, except for the sake of war and clashes between countries. The soil seems to be the same, the trees the same, the grass the same, and the fragrance of the air, the smell of the earth the same.

Tolerance is nothing more than patience with boundaries.

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

Pride has a roof over its head, love doesn't.