Quotes about Boundaries
When you're doing what's right for you, it's okay to say it once, simply, and then refuse to discuss anything further.
- Melody Beattie
Do you know you have a right to become as healthy as you want, no matter what your family does or doesn't do? Do you know you can love
- Melody Beattie
Surrender to love, without allowing people to control us or keep us from caring for ourselves. Start by surrendering to love for yourself.
- Melody Beattie
You can spoil your fun, your day, your life—that's your business—but I won't let you spoil my fun, my day, or my life.
- Melody Beattie
I do not deserve and will not tolerate abuse or constant mistreatment.
- Melody Beattie
We frequently react to people who are destroying themselves; we react by learning to destroy ourselves.
- Melody Beattie
often seek love from people incapable of loving. believe
- Melody Beattie
Maybe we don't need to go deeper into our codependency. We can, instead, march forward into our destinies. We can remember and practice all we've learned about addictions, codependency, and abuse. With compassion and boundaries, we need to commit fully to loving God, ourselves, and others. We need to commit fully to trusting God, ourselves, and our process.
- Melody Beattie
Furthermore, we are not responsible for anyone else's feelings, although we are responsible for choosing to be considerate of people's feelings.
- Melody Beattie
If we absolutely can't feel good about something we're doing, then we shouldn't do it - no matter how charitable it seems. We also shouldn't do things for others that they ought to and are capable or doing for themselves. Other people aren't helpless. Neither are we.
- Melody Beattie
Nobody gets the right to keep you in a pit.
- Beth Moore
When you need to set boundaries . . . They are the kind [of people] who work their way into people's homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires. 2 TIMOTHY 3:6
- Beth Moore