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Boundaries Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.”

Ivan Turgenev

2. “Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.”

Camille Paglia

3. “The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.”

Camille Paglia

4. “Do not take offense at anything someone says, whose opinion you would not have asked for in the first place.”

Ankur Warikoo

5. “You cannot make someone love you by giving them more of something they do not appreciate.”

Ankur Warikoo

6. “If you politely decline an invitation stating it is not a priority currently, and the other side gets offended, it is a sign you did the right thing!”

Ankur Warikoo

7. “Stay away from people who bring out the worst in you. Even if it includes family.”

Ankur Warikoo

8. “A year from now you will wish you had unfollowed emotionally draining people. A year from now you will wish you had said ‘no’ more often. A year from now you will wish you had said ‘yes’ to yourself more often. A year from now, you will never be sure of the results.”

Ankur Warikoo

9. “If you want to be successful, stop giving away your time to those who simply take it without asking you for it.”

Ankur Warikoo

10. “You are in the wrong relationship if it is your responsibility to keep the other person happy.”

Ankur Warikoo

11. “Most relationships go bad when you help the other person without their permission, and are disappointed in them if they don't acknowledge.”

Ankur Warikoo

12. “Find it hard to say no to people, when you know you should? It's mostly because you worry about what they think of you.”

Ankur Warikoo

13. “Don’t waste your time on people who don’t value their time.”

Ankur Warikoo

14. “People do what’s comfortable for them. Not what’s right for you.”

Ankur Warikoo

15. “When you learn to say no, you give yourself permission to be who you really are.”

Ankur Warikoo

16. “We say yes more often just because we want people to feel good about us! We thus end up feeling worse because of these tiny betrayals.”

Ankur Warikoo

17. “You are never going to respect yourself until you are angry at someone else for taking it away.”

Ankur Warikoo

18. “We can be, in some sense, friends to all men because there is no man on earth with whom we do not have something in common. But it would be false to treat too many men as intimate friends. It is not possible to be intimate with more than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common. Love, then, must.”

Thomas Merton

19. “Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.”

Chanakya

20. “Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.”

Amit Ray

21. “To realize truth, you must cross all boundaries of all religions and all prophets.”

Amit Ray

22. “Kindness has no religion – no boundaries. It is the trust of the soul.”

Amit Ray

23. “Some people think politeness is an invitation to invade.”

Alice Walker

24. “He is culpable who interferes with, or meddles with, such thing as appertains not unto him.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

25. “To experience the ultimate you have to be willing to obliterate the self-created boundaries of individuality, you have to be willing to dissolve. That state of unbounded freedom is a state of oneness with Shiva – an unconditioned state beyond physical experience, beyond imaginative speculation, beyond all conceptual understanding.”

Sadhguru

26. “The whole effort of the spiritual process is to break the boundaries you have drawn for yourself and experience the immensity that you are. The aim is to unshackle yourself from the limited identity you have forged, as a result of your own ignorance, and live the way the Creator made you – utterly blissful and infinitely responsible.”

Sadhguru

27. “The walls of self-preservation that you build for today are the walls of self-imprisonment for tomorrow. Boundaries that you establish in your life as a protection for yourself today will feel like constraints tomorrow.”

Sadhguru

28. “Yoga means union. Union means the boundaries of the individual self-dissolve, and you experience existence as yourself.”

Sadhguru

29. “It does not matter how large a boundary we set, the moment you become conscious of it, the longing to break it is instinctive.”

Sadhguru

30. “No boundary, no burden. This is the turnaround in human consciousness that needs to take place. Once this happens, it is not that the cosmos begins to happen your way. Instead, what you are becomes cosmic. This is not transcendence; this is homecoming.”

Sadhguru

31. “Set healthy boundaries and prioritize your well-being. Your needs matter, and self-care is essential.”

BK Shivani

32. “Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.”

Gustave Flaubert

33. “The relationship between professional and domestic cook has similarities to a sexual encounter. One party is normally more experienced than the other; and either party should have the right, at any moment, to say, “No, I’m not going to do that.””

Julian Barnes

34. “Love flows. Love doesn’t know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.”

Ram Dass

35. “Don’t concern yourself with other people’s business. It’s his problem if he receives you badly. And you cannot suffer for another person’s fault. So don’t worry about the behavior of others.”

Epictetus

36. “Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.”

Epictetus

37. “Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.”

Charles Spurgeon

38. “A conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be. Wherever a condition comes in, love disappears. It cannot live in bondage, and a condition gives it an imprisonment. Love can only live like the vast sky. Love knows no boundaries.”

Osho Rajneesh

39. “Most of us have a “Do Not Disturb” sign around our necks.”

Joyce Meyer

40. “If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.”

Joyce Meyer

41. “The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.”

Joyce Meyer

42. “I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.”

Joyce Meyer

43. “Don’t let someone who has a bad attitude give it to you.”

Joyce Meyer

44. “I respect my boundaries, and I insist that others respect them, too.”

Louise Hay

45. “It is safe for me to speak up for myself.”

Louise Hay

46. “You forgive that person and then you release them. Taking a stand and setting healthy boundaries is often the most loving thing you can do – not only for yourself, but for the other person as well.”

Louise Hay