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.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

Normally, he liked boundaries. Boundaries were the safety net. Boundaries kept people on the right path. But right now, he felt like rules were made to be broken and consequences were miles and miles away.

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.

When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.

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

Boundary violations are deeply experienced.

When I ask French parents what they most want for their children, they say things like “to feel comfortable in their own skin” and “to find their path in the world.” They want their kids...

It’s a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda]

My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren’t so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

These are all problems in which a shape needs to be modified. In the case of solder, you are talking about what shape a droplet should take ‘ – the boundaries of the droplet are constantly...

The genesis of exceptional living lives in the knowing that the boundary between your ideas and your acquisition of them can only be obscured by self imposed barriers. Possibility is a state of being. Be...

You can only exceed your limits if you’ve discovered them.

There have to be some boundaries. The butt of the joke cannot be God or the prophet or the religion itself. I’m very careful about sacrilegious humor. I’m not a shock comic who’s going to...

Boundary construction is most evident in three-year-olds. Boundary construction is most evident in three-year-olds. By this time, they should have mastered the following tasks:1. The ability to be emotionally attached to others, yet without giving...

Appropriate boundaries create integrity.

Should’ assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic.

every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends;...