480 Quotes About Boundaries
- Author Ellis Peters
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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.
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- Author Annie Lamott
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No" is a complete sentence.
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- Author Stieg Larsson
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We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine.
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- Author Beverly Engel
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If someone is inconsiderate or rude to you, risk telling them how it made you feel or that you didn’t appreciate being treated that way. If you tend to talk yourself out of anger by telling yourself that you don’t want to make waves, try telling yourself instead that it is okay to make waves sometimes and risk letting people know how you really feel.
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- Author Anné Linden
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The most important distinction anyone can ever make in their life is between who they are as an individual and their connection with others.
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- Author Elin Hilderbrand
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All her life, Claire had had a problem figuring out where other people ended and she began. All her life, she’d taken on the world’s hurt; she held herself responsible. But why?
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- Author Darlene Ouimet
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About the expression "Hurt people, hurt people".. Hurt people are not going to stop HURTING other people until they receive the memo that it is WRONG, (or if there are actual consequences for their behaviour.) Feeling sorry for them and understanding where they 'came from' is not helping to stop the cycle of abuse.
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- Author Danny Silk
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In order for us to practice self-control, we must have a goal. We must have something we are saying “yes” to, which necessarily comes with things that we must say “no” to. We use self-control to maneuver ourselves toward this “yes.” This goal must be entirely our own. The minute another person is choosing and managing our goals for us, we have left self-control behind.
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- Author Anne Katherine
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We sometimes feel that if a person tromps over us after we've said no, then we must not have been clear. We can get caught in the trap of explaining again and again, meanwhile letting the other person take advantage of us.
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