Quotes about Boundaries

Cesar Milan, the "dog whisperer," says that dogs cannot be peaceful or teachable if they have no limits set to their freedom and their emotions. They are actually happier and at rest when they live within very clear limits and boundaries, with a "calm and assertive" master. My dog, Venus, is never happier and more teachable than when I am walking her, but on her leash. Could it be the same for humans at certain stages?

Don't expect or demand from groups what they usually cannot give. Doing so will make you needlessly angry and reactionary. They must and will be concerned with identity, boundaries, self-maintenance, self-perpetuation, and self-congratulation. This is their nature and purpose.

Human life is about more than building boundaries, protecting identities, creating tribes, and teaching impulse control.

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.

Busyness is a great enemy of relationships.

We have the power to make reality. Why make it inside boundaries, when the boundless is so near?

You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.

But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.

Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

When God created the world, he didn't draw a line between Canada and America.

One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by nation states, class systems, cultures and even religions. But often they are the last!