Boundaries Quotes

"Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts -- good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt." "There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over" "What is reprehensible is people who... tell you there are limits and that you can't do this or that. These are the people who when you say you can think freely, say it's only thinkable up to a certain point." "Don’t try to win over the haters; you’re not the jackass whisperer" "You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically—to say no to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger yes burning inside." "Without the ability to say no, human beings cannot say yes" "You can't be everything to everybody at once" "My father told me, 'Name your price in the beginning.'" "Creativity comes from constraint" "Things that cost me my peace are subject to removal" "Eroticism requires separateness; it is a space where you can be yourself without losing yourself." "You can’t just sit there and put everyone’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love" "He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own." "If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs." "Be courteous to all but intimate with few"