480 Quotes About Boundaries

Instead of trying to “shield” yourself as an empath, try to create boundaries instead -- this is a much more healthy, sustainable, and long term practice.

Diplomacy without armaments is like music without instruments. – Frederick the Great

To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people.

I am infinite. I only create my boundaries with my thoughts.

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.

Breaking your inner boundaries is an existential art.

Raise your standards and your boundaries to achieve positive results.

Emotional self-defense... When you set healthier relationship standards in your life, some people will take it personally. That’s their issue, not yours. The distance isn’t against them; it’s for you. It’s a boundary, not a grudge.

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.