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Quotes about Boundaries

No, you won't. And I won't be enough for you, Amanda. I don't want to be the center of your life. I want to be part of it. I want to be your husband, not your god. People can't always be there for you, no matter how much they want to be. And that includes me.
— Francine Rivers
To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen.
— Frank Herbert
We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.
— Lysa TerKeurst
He's not good for you, Omio said. He wants too much. He is someone who takes. He does not give.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
— Graham Greene
The providence of God, I grant, does not indeed preclude the faithful from caring for themselves; but let them do it in such a way, that they may not overstep their prescribed bounds.
— John Calvin
I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.
— Martin Luther
You're not RESPONSIBLE for somebody else's happiness. You're responsible for your own HAPPINESS.
— Joel Osteen
It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.
— George Eliot
If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.
— John Newton
I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
— Walt Disney
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
— Robert Frost