480 Quotes About Boundaries

All I could think was that the border was a clever idea. It might as well have been Hadrian's Wall, but they had taken the idea and distilled it down to all that was actually required of a wall in a perfectly policed world: a line on the ground.

A boundary is effective only if it’s maintained.

The panoramic plethora of responses to Shakespeare by Western and Eastern critics is strongly indicative of the fact that the Bard crosses all nationalities and deserves to be called a global writer. That is why he iseasily appreciated, manipulated, translated, adapted, and interpreted by everyone, everywhere.

Do you know what boundaries are? The best, sanest people on the planet do.

Some folks say that consent is sexy, but really it's more that consent is the absolute bare minimum for things not to be terrible. (I mean, you wouldn't say that the reason a restaurant has amazing food is because the chefs wash their hands after they go to the bathroom.)

If you fear that defending your boundaries is being controlling, don't worry. There is a difference between being controlling and having boundaries. Controlling people is about telling them what to do. Setting boundaries is about saying what you do or do not want to happen to you.

If we're highly empathetic and emotionally sensitive we're at greater risk of becoming involved with a manipulator.

Beware of relationships that substitute intensity for emotional intimacy.

Abuse can take many forms. It always involves a boundary violation, although every boundary violation is not necessarily abuse.