Respect Your Boundaries Quotes

#1. But unlike the classically trained, my dancing had no respect for so-called boundaries; I wasn't afraid to break the rules.

Danny Wallace

#2. I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#3. When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected ... part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own love. Only when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect and even be grateful for the boundaries of others.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#4. Be honest with who you are, what you want and how you want to be treated. Boundaries only scare off the people that were not meant to be in your life.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries.

Haruki Murakami

#6. Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels.

Sharon Salzberg

#7. I respect my boundaries, and I insist that others respect them, too.

Louise Hay

#8. Remember that you always have the right to be treated with respect, and to protest unfair treatment or criticism. It's vital to reinforce those rights with boundaries.

Susan Forward

#9. Those who truly love and respect you will respect your boundaries. I think freeing oneself from codependency and fear is vital for well-being.

Maria Canals Barrera

#10. Know that you matter, your thoughts and feelings matter, your sexual needs and wants matter, your sexual boundaries and sexual health matter. -That is the definition of sexual empowerment.

Miya Yamanouchi

#11. Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to safeguard your civil liberties-must, of course, be handled on the national level.

Ronald Reagan

#12. If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. Nonmonogamous folks are constantly engaged in their relationships: they negotiate and establish boundaries, respect them, test them, and, yes, even violate them. But the limits are not assumed or set by society; they are consciously chosen.

Tristan Taormino

#14. When you look at someone like Sacha Baron Cohen, you have to really respect the boundaries he is pushing as Bruno or Borat.

Will Ferrell

#15. Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

Vikas Swarup

#16. Someone who doesn't respect your boundaries deserves no place in your life, but they should respect those boundaries because they want to, not because you tell them to.

Simeon Lindstrom

#17. Respect the boundaries of the world even as you strive to break through the boundaries of your own mind.

Yonason Goldson

#18. You don't owe anybody the present other than yourself. Take time for you. Respect yourself and your privacy. Set boundaries.

Demi Lovato

#19. Individuals set boundaries to feel safe, respected, and heard.

Pamela Cummins

#20. Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. David, I just broke into your home. Clearly I don't respect boundaries. Do you really think a verbal request is going to put a dent in any of my plans?

Lisa Lutz