boundaries

Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.

The best traveler is one without a camera.

Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

If you spend your life sparing people__ feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can__ distinguish what should be respected in them.

One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about thin-lipped heroes flying over mysterious viny jungles toward untold wonders? That's what you wanted to write about, about what you didn't know. So. What mysterious time and place don't we know?", December 31, 1989)]

Could some of the challenging behaviours that often partner autism begin as experiements on measuring human reactions? Are these children exploring boundaries - seeing what makes the toy squeak or the adult shriek?

The biggest battles you face in love are the battle to know your worth and the battle to know when your boundaries need to be protected.

Normally, he liked boundaries. Boundaries were the safety net. Boundaries kept people on the right path. But right now, he felt like rules were made to be broken and consequences were miles and miles away.

The growth of intimacy will teach us how to love__oth ourselves and the other person. If we will allow ourselves to practice the skills of intimacy, we will learn to love. Boundaries protect love and intimacy. Certain behaviors support the integrity of intimacy. Other behaviors, harm, disrupt, or reverse, intimacy. By using skills that promote intimacy, boundaries are created that protect the relationship.

It was more than just material prosperity. America in 1960 was a country where restraint and boundaries were the natural conditions in all arenas. People married younger and stayed married; even with those added twenty-eight million, there were fewer divorces in 1960 than there had been a decade earlier. People did not have children unless they were married__nly 2.5 percent of children were born out of wedlock, though the number in black households was disturbingly high__ome 20 percent.

Visionaries see beyond the boundaries of an eyesight.

Questions are as supple as willow wands, it's easy to brush by them and slip them aside, and no one the worse for it.

Boundaries help us to distinguish our property so that we can take care of it. They help us to "guard our heart with all diligence." We need to keep things that will nurture us inside our fences and keep things that will harm us outside.

The longer we stay in a violating situation, the more traumatized we become. If we don't act on our own behalf, we will lose spirit, resourcefulness, energy, health, perspective, and resilience. We must take ourselves out of violating situations for the sake of our own wholeness.

What is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry?

Boundary violations are deeply experienced.

Being able to say, __o,_ is a necessary ingredient in a healthy lifestyle.