I hated this love that I had for my family—love that demanded my time and energy, that sought to control my life down to every thought and action.I now realize that it was not love...

Boundaries are nothing more than imaginary lines drawn-up by delusional leaders and power hungry tyrants who wish to segregate the population into more easily controlled segments in any case. -If you really think about it...

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

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...

Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves....

CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

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

One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years...

Tolerance is nothing more than patience with boundaries.

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...

Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent’s job is to make the rule. The child’s job is to break the rule. The parent then corrects and disciplines. The child...

I like Alexander McQueen’s work a lot: he’s always pushing boundaries, and he’s rough around the edges.

Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.

Let Life race you out beyond your own boundaries over and over again until you are comfortable with watching the Map of Normal’s edge disappear behind you.Let Life show you that it is safe to...

Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.

Maybe that was one of the problems with these men who lived forever, they’d built up an immunity or resistance to affection. Perhaps because when everyone they knew and loved continued to die, they realized...

No,” is a necessary ingredient in a healthy lifestyle.

When you build a wall to protect yourself against one person be warned–everyone is now out there except for you.

A broken soul doesn’t invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy.

The longer we stay in a violating situation, the more traumatized we become. If we don’t act on our own behalf, we will lose spirit, resourcefulness, energy, health, perspective, and resilience. We must take ourselves...

Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.

Specific parts of you personality may be angry and are usually easily evoked. because these parts are dissociated, anger remains an emotion that is not integrated for you as a whole person. Even though individuals...

People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn’t belong to them.

Thought is uncontrollable but controllable. Thought is the pivot of life and the epitome of good or bad living. A controlled thought is a controlled life and an uncontrolled life is an uncontrolled living. Our...

It was determined it was within the boundaries, … We didn’t think we needed to go through the process again. We felt like it had been laid to rest at that time.

And Ana remembered her father’s words, “Say no! Run! Tell me!

Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.

That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only...

Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it.

Healthy people have healthy boundaries. Unhealthy people, well, let’s not get into that. It’s like this: some people have walls which means they let no one in. This equals unhealthy. Some people let everyone in...

People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

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...

There is no boundary between heaven and earth unless we believe in one.

No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.

Games where someone wants to touch your body where your swimsuit covers or they ask you to touch their body where their swimsuit covers. Those body parts are private. No one is allowed to touch...

Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.

The river is something that can transcend political boundaries.

I want to remind pastors and leaders that we do not own the church—God does. We aren’t called to serve the church from a place of fear with our primary focus on protecting our boundaries....

Even a room, arranged in a certain manner, prevents certain things from taking place in it.

Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relationship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose.

Insatiable is my desire for you, Insane is my love you,Limitless are my boundaries for you, True are my feelings for you,Wildest are my imaginations for you, Intense is my passion for you,Soul is my...

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

If no one has boundaries…how can there be any transgression?

Individuals set boundaries to feel safe, respected, and heard.

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It’s like expanding its territory.

When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a...

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.