Quotes about Boundaries

You see, whenever we live in relationship, whenever we simply live in proximity to other people, sooner or later we will run up against their issues—the unhealed or unholy parts of their personalities. Just as they will run into ours. Living in community is like a pack of porcupines sharing the same den. We will get stuck.

The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn't felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.

I soon learned there was a very Indian habit of asking personal questions.

I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Discipline yourself to shut the door of your mind on people, events, or things that pull you down, drain your mental or emotional energy, and try to rob you of your promise of the future.

If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty.

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.

I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Art is a unifying language for all of us from across the world, and it transcends boundaries.