Quotes about Boundaries

Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.

Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life.

Any created thing must, for example, possess a limited set of characteristics which rules out the possibility of it possessing other characteristics incompatible with these.

If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that has nothing of real friendship in it.

Why didn't you tell her it was no business of hers?" said Eben angrily. "Old Flora Jane had better mind her own business.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

If you attempt what is beyond your power, your trouble will be wasted and you court not only misfortune but ridicule.

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule.

When one no longer knows what one owes oneself and others, where the sense for human quality and the strength to respect boundaries cease to exist, chaos is at the door. When for the sake of material comfort one tolerates impudence, one has already surrendered, there the floods of chaos have been permitted to burst the dam at the place where it was to be defended, and one becomes guilty of all that follows.