Quotes about Boundaries

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.

There's some that constantly put monkeys on your back. It's their monkey, but somehow you end up carrying it. Often there are people who really care, but they constantly have problems and they want to share it with you and you're constantly trying to fix things for them. In truth, you're worried more about their problems than you do your own. Be weary of the monkeys.

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.

Life's too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can't please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart.