100 Boundaries Quotes That Will Change Your Day

Setting boundaries is one of the most important things that we can do for ourselves. When we don’t set boundaries, we let other people control our lives and dictate how we should behave. This can be extremely harmful to our mental health and well-being. In this article, we will discuss 100 quotes about boundaries that will change your day!

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Boundaries Quotes

1. “No” is a complete sentence.” ― Annie Lamott
2. “Appropriate boundaries create integrity.” ― Rae Shagalov
3. “Boundaries are a form of self-love and respect.” – Unknown
4. “Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself.” – Anne Katherine
5. “Visionaries see beyond the boundaries of eyesight.” ― Gift Gugu Mona
6. “Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.” ― Deborah Day
7. “Self-care begins with setting boundaries and sticking to them.” – Unknown
8. “You can only exceed your limits if you’ve discovered them.” ― Roel van Sleeuwen
9. “We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.” ― Tim Fargo
10. “Having boundaries gives you the power to determine your own happiness.” – Unknown
11. “Stick to your boundaries and don’t let anyone push them aside for you.” – Unknown
12. “We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.” ― Samuel Johnson
13. “Boundaries are the lines we **** that define us and help us keep our sanity.” – Unknown
14. “Your boundaries are your responsibility, not someone else’s to enforce for you.” – Unknown
15. “Having boundaries is essential for protecting your physical and emotional health.”– Unknown
16. “Dear if your limits and my limits were the same, Our borders would not have been separate” ― Vineet Raj Kapoor
17. “There is no boundary between heaven and earth unless we believe in one.” ― Leland Dirks, Seven Dogs in Heaven
18. “The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.” ― Erin Hunter
19. “No matter how much you love someone, you can’t let them cross your boundaries without consequences.” – Unknown
20. “We need to have a talk on the subject of what’s yours and what’s mine.” ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
21. “Individuals set boundaries to feel safe, respected, and heard.” ― Pamela Cummins, Psychic Wisdom on Love and Relationships
22. “Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.” ― Marshall McLuhan
23. “Just as we expect others to value our boundaries, it’s equally important for us to respect the boundaries of others.” ― Laurie Buchanan, PhD
24. “boundaries, Sheila. Barriers. We need them. They let you love someone. Otherwise you might **** them.” ― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?
25. “Touch my things again, whether I’m dead or not, and I’ll kick your *** up into your shoulder blades.” ― MaryJanice Davidson, Undead and Unwed
26. “I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.” ― Brian Andreas, Story People
27. “The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.” ― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
28. “Boundaries aren’t all bad. That’s why there are walls around mental institutions.” ― Peggy Noonan, Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now
29. “Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.” ― Asa Don Brown, The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview
30. “And Ana remembered her father’s words, “Say no! Run! Tell me!” ― Carolyn Byers Ruch, Rise and Shine: A Tool for the Prevention of Childhood Sexual Abuse
31. “In heated rooms, he often felt the outlines of his body, the border between him and the external world, grow disturbingly fuzzy.” ― Ryū Murakami, Piercing
32. “Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.” ― Henry Cloud and John Townsend, Boundaries in Dating
33. “Do you know what boundaries are? The best, sanest people on the planet do.” ― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
34. “It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.” ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
35. “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.” —Brene Brown, researcher, author, motivational speaker
36. “Boundaries and risk management are very important parts of living a healthy and positive life.” ― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
37. “Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relationship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose.” ― Deborah Day
38. “There are limits to the dimension of fear. Until one meets the unknown. Then terror has no boundaries, no walls to keep it contained.” ― Carol Hedges, Dark Side Of Midnight
39. “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” ― Shannon L. Alder
40. “When you build a wall to protect yourself against one person be warned–everyone is now out there except for you.” ― Nakia R. Laushaul, The Truth as I See It: In Poetry & Prose
41. “Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.” ― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
42. “It takes effort to say no when our heart and brains and guts and, most important, pride are yearning to say yes. Practice.” ― Cole Harmonson, Pre Middle Age: 40 Lessons in Growing the **** Up
43. “Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.” ― Sara Sheridan
44. “We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.” ― Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend
45. “There are people in my situation who stick to the same place, who **** an invisible line around themselves and won’t go outside of it, but I don’t know where you are, so I keep moving.” ― Sarah Butler
46. “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, Tender is the Night & The Last Tycoon
47. “No escape from patterns and systems, no exits. Nothing, and no one, resides outside a system; that’s the way it is. Nothing outside the inside, the inside is also outside, etc.” ― Lynne Tillman, Men and Apparitions
48. “To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people.” ― Kat Von D, Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love, and Tattooing
49. “We are designed boundaryless and limitless in what we can achieve. Unfortunately, we are also skillful in building boundaries and limits…” ― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
50. “You need boundaries…even in our material creations, boundaries mark the most beautiful of places, between the ocean and the shore, between the mountains and the plains, where the canyon meets the river.” ― Wm. Paul Young, Cross Roads
51. “When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.” ― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection
52. “And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the clear, healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other, let us risk remembering that we never stop silently loving those we once loved out loud.” ― Oriah Mountain Dreamer
53. “Instead of trying to “shield” yourself as an empath, try to create boundaries instead — this is a much more healthy, sustainable, and long term practice.” ― Mateo Sol, Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing
54. “People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn’t belong to them.” ― Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, Author of So Good They Can’t Ignore You
55. “Create boundaries. Honor your limits. Say no. Take a break. Let go. Stay grounded. Nurture your body. Love your vulnerability. And if all else fails, breathe deeply.” ― Aletheia Luna, Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing
56. “I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood… I was raving, if only to myself.” ― Robin McKinley, Sunshine
57. “Stop allowing people to disrespect your right to say no and enforce boundaries as a form of self-care. Make your yes valued by saying no when you don’t want to say yes and make your no mean no without any explanation because you have the power to do so.” ― Tasha McCray, Unlocking The Power Of Your Value
58. “When we walk out of our boundaries, we find out that knowledge is not a completion or a windfall, but a long process of revisions or adjustments. Likewise, we recognize that wisdom results from the painful filtering of experiences we collect on the bumpy path of life. ‘(“Loss of benchmarks”)” ― Erik Pevernagie
59. “Games where someone wants to touch your body where your swimsuit covers or they ask you to touch their body where their swimsuit covers. Those body parts are private. No one is allowed to touch you there, or ask you to touch them there.” ― Carolyn Byers Ruch, Rise and Shine: A Tool for the Prevention of Childhood Sexual Abuse
60. “Could some of the challenging behaviours that often partner autism begin as experiments on measuring human reactions? Are these children exploring boundaries – seeing what makes the toy squeak or the adult shriek?” ― Adele Devine, Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School
61. “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?” ― Adele Devine, Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School
62. “Say rather that the Ring has no power over him. He is his own master. But he cannot alter the Ring itself, nor break its power over others. And now he is withdrawn into a little land, within bounds that he has set, though none can see them, waiting perhaps for a change of days, and he will not step beyond them.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
63. “When you notice someone does something toxic the first time, don’t wait for the second time before you address it or cut them off. Many survivors are used to the “wait and see” tactic which only leaves them vulnerable to a second attack. As your boundaries get stronger, the wait time gets shorter. You never have justify your intuition.” ― Shahida Arabi
64. “Let us not subside into a single mandatory way of thinking or feeling, immersed by a spirit of self-gratification. But let’s dig into the fresh energy of new boundaries and at the same time pick the blossoms of poetry welling up along the path of our life, and enjoy the innocence of the little wonders of every day. (“A Thousand times touched.” )” ― Erik Pevernagie
65. “Misinformation about the Bible’s answers to these issues has led to much wrong teaching about boundaries. Not only that, but many clinical psychological symptoms, such as depression, anxiety disorders, guilt problems, shame issues, panic disorders, and marital and relational struggles, find their root in conflicts with boundaries.” ― Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
66. “While we can offer our guidance and a shoulder to cry on, our responsibility does not lie in fixing others and their problems. We need to **** the line when it comes to giving help and remember that other people must ultimately take responsibility for their happiness, not us.” ― Aletheia Luna, Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing
67. “It can be said that we are built by many things. Biology and lineage. Grit and moonlight and ocean stone. By fire and water and air. By the lessons of the grandmothers and the pounding of blood through veins and the very first break. The way it felt when you learned the truth of boundary and by the day you stood there and knew nothing could every be the same.” ― Jeanette LeBlanc
68. “every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
69. “Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent’s job is to make the rule. The child’s job is to break the rule. The parent then corrects and disciplines. The child breaks the rule again, and the parent manages the consequences and empathy that then turn the rule into reality and internal structure for the child.” ― Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend
70. “It is so important for us as empaths to maintain a sense of connectedness with life. When we put up walls to protect ourselves, we end up exhausting, victimizing, and alienating ourselves. It is far more satisfying, effective, and healthy to work with our gifts, rather than against them.” ― Aletheia Luna, Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing
71. “She’s a she-wolf. Her nature demands she’s dominated, even if she tries to fight it. She’ll listen to an amount of force – positive force, not negative force. But leave the run wide open with no boundaries and she won’t listen to you at all. All she’ll listen to is the call of freedom, even if it leads her straight into a trap. Stop thinking like a human. She’s a wolf.” ― Dianna Hardy, Blood Shadow
72. “Boundaries are nothing more than imaginary lines drawn-up by delusional leaders and power hungry tyrants who wish to segregate the population into more easily controlled segments in any case. -If you really think about it logically, the only place where the Buddha can be born is within the hearts and minds of the truly enlightened, otherwise you’re simply wasting your time.” ― Andrew James Pritchard
73. “if you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won’t like you. It may not be easy, but it’s essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs.” ― Cheryl Richardson, The Art of Extreme Self-Care: Transform Your Life One Month at a Time
74. “In every one of your relationships, you are on a continuum between intimacy and separation. You stand on a slide that tilts you toward either intimacy or separateness. Exactly where you stand at any given moment is the result of your decisions, your feelings, how you handle situations, and the way you and the other person communicate.” ― Anne Katherine, Where to **** the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day
75. “Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.” ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
76. “When boundaries are not established in the beginning of a marriage, or when they break down, marriages break down as well. Or such marriages don’t grow past the initial attraction and transform into real intimacy. They never reach the true “knowing” of each other and the ongoing ability to abide in love and to grow as individuals and as a couple-the long-term fulfillment that was God’s design.” ― Henry Cloud and John Townsend
77. “If you live your life to please everyone else, you will continue to feel frustrated and powerless. This is because what others want may not be good for you. You are not being mean when you say NO to unreasonable demands or when you express your ideas, feelings, and opinions, even if they differ from those of others.” ― Beverly Engel, The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused — And Start Standing Up for Yourself
78. “Unity in the secular world and sadly among most Christian churches is based on uniformity of interest or viewpoints. The oneness in Jesus Christ crosses all boundaries and separations. Anyone with the faith of Jesus Christ can immediately enjoy the innate oneness with another who also has the faith of Jesus regardless of differing political or doctrinal views.” ― Henry Hon, ONE: Unfolding God’s Eternal Purpose from House to House
79. “I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.” ― Denis Diderot, Thoughts on the Interpretation of Nature and Other Philosophical Works
80. “She was an abandoned paradise. Wrecked and scary. The silence she held around her pierced even the darkest nights and the toughest hearts. But the moment you entered inside, she was utterly beautiful. She had the stars hanging from the roof with her dreams spilt all over the floor. The realms she ruled had no boundaries and walking through her was always bliss.” ― Akshay Vasu, The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
81. “If someone is inconsiderate or rude to you, risk telling them how it made you feel or that you didn’t appreciate being treated that way. If you tend to talk yourself out of anger by telling yourself that you don’t want to make waves, try telling yourself instead that it is okay to make waves sometimes and risk letting people know how you really feel.” ― Beverly Engel, The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused — And Start Standing Up for Yourself
82. “The growth of intimacy will teach us how to love—both 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.” ― Anne Katherine, Where to **** the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day
83. “We can’t manipulate people into swallowing our boundaries by sugarcoating them. Boundaries are a “litmus test” for the quality of our relationships. Those people in our lives who can respect our boundaries will love our wills, our opinions, our separateness. Those who can’t respect our boundaries are telling us that they don’t love our nos. They only love our yeses, our compliance. “I only like it when you do what I want.” ― Henry Cloud, Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
84. “Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves. This makes it difficult for them to mature. Many never outgrow the need for ongoing parental guidance and control. As a result, their parents continue to invade, manipulate, and frequently dominate their lives.” ― Susan Forward, Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
85. “Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.” ― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
86. “When I ask French parents what they most want for their children, they say things like “to feel comfortable in their own skin” and “to find their path in the world.” They want their kids to develop their own tastes and opinions. In fact, French parents worry if their kids are too docile. They want them to have character. But they believe that children can achieve these goals only if they respect boundaries and have self-control. So alongside character, there has to be cadre.” ― Pamela Druckerman, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
87. “That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only because we accept as real the boundary line between the opposites. It is, recall, the boundaries themselves which create the seeming existence of separate opposites. To put it plainly, to say that “ultimate reality is a unity of opposites” is actually to say that in ultimate reality there are no boundaries. Anywhere.” ― Ken Wilber, No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth
88. “There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
89. “The traditional boundaries between various fields of science are rapidly disappearing and what is more important science does not know any national borders. The scientists of the world are forming an invisible network with a very free flow of scientific information – a freedom accepted by the countries of the world irrespective of political systems or religions. … Great care must be taken that the scientific network is utilized only for scientific purposes – if it gets involved in political questions it loses its special status and utility as a nonpolitical force for development.” ― Sune Bergström
90. “Unhealthy love is based on two people trying to escape their problems through their emotions for each other–in other words, they’re using each other as an escape. Healthy love is based on two people acknowledging and addressing their own problems with each other’s support. …The mark of an unhealthy relationship is when two people who try to solve each other’s problems in order to feel good about themselves. Rather, a healthy relationship is when two people solve their own problems in other to feel good about each other.” ― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a ****: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
91. “What he’d do, he’d never go out to the length of the chain. He’d never even get out to where the chain got tight. Even if the mailman pulled up, or a salesman. Out of dignity, this dog pretended like he chose this one area to stay in that just happened to be inside the length of the chain. Nothing outside of that area right there interested him. He just had zero interest. So he never noticed the chain. He didn’t hate it. The chain. He just up and made it not relevant. maybe he wasn’t pretending–maybe he really up and chose that little circle for his own world. He had a power to him. All of his life on that chain.” ― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
92. “Now I’ve been criticized for advocating that people push their boundaries because sometimes people get caught. Sometimes people get fired. Sometimes people lose their jobs because of pushing the boundaries too far, but it’s an interesting experience. They found they didn’t want to stay within those limitations that they were pushing. Once people find they can survive outside the limits, they’re much happier. They don’t want to feel trapped. So I think we can urge people to push the boundaries as far as they can, and if they get in trouble, fine; that’s not too bad if that’s what they want to do.” ― Myles Horton, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
93. “Specific parts of you personality may be angry and are usually easily evoked. because these parts are dissociated, anger remains an emotion that is not integrated for you as a whole person. Even though individuals with dissociative disorder are responsible for their behavior, just like everyone else, regardless of which part may be acting, they may feel little control of these raging parts of themselves. Some dissociative parts may avoid or even be phobic of anger. They may influence you as a whole person to avoid conflict with others at any cost or to avoid setting healthy boundaries out of fear of someone else’s anger; or they may urge you to withdraw from others almost completely.” ― Suzette Boon, Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
94. “Why do we view the boundaries people create for themselves as challenges? Why do we see someone setting a limit and then try to push? Once, I was at a restaurant with a large group of people and the waitress kept touching me. It was really ******* annoying because I don’t want to be touched like that unless we are in a sexual relationship. Every time she passed by, she would rub my shoulders or run her hand down my arm and I kept getting more and more irritated but I said nothing. I never do. Do my boundaries exist if I don’t voice them? Can people not see my body, the mass of it, as one very big boundary? Do they not know how much effort went into this? Because I am not a touchy-feely person, I always feel this light shock, this surprise, really, when my skin comes into contact with another person’s skin. Sometimes that shock is pleasant, like Oh, here is my body in the world. Sometimes, it is not. I never know which it will be.” ― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
95. “An important difference between overt and covert incest is that, while the overt victim feels abused, the covert victim feels idealized and privileged. Yet underneath the thin mask of feeling special and privileged rests the same trauma of the overt victim: rage, anger, shame and guilt. The sense of exploitation resulting from being a parent’s surrogate partner or spouse is buried behind a wall of illusion and denial. The adult covert incest victim remains stuck in a pattern of living aimed at keeping the special relationship going with the opposite-*** parent. It is a pattern of always trying to please Mommy and Daddy. In this way the adult continues to be idealized. A privileged and special position is maintained; the pain and suffering of a lost childhood denied. Separation never occurs and feelings of being trapped in the psychological marriage deepen. This interferes with the victim’s capacity for healthy intimacy and sexuality.” ― Kenneth M. Adams, Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners – Understanding Covert Incest
96. “The boundary between caring and incestuous love is crossed when the relationship with the child exists to meet the needs of the parent rather than those of the child. As the deterioration in the marriage progresses, the dependency on the child grows and the opposite-*** parent’s response to the child becomes increasingly characterized by desperation, jealousy and a disregard for personal boundaries. The child becomes an object to be manipulated and used so the parent can avoid the pain and reality of a troubled marriage. The child feels used and trapped, the same feelings overt incest victims experience. Attempts at play, autonomy and friendship render the child guilt-ridden and lonely, never able to feel okay about his or her needs. Over time, the child becomes preoccupied with the parent’s needs and feels protective and concerned. A psychological marriage between parent and child results. The child becomes the parent’s surrogate spouse.” ― Kenneth M. Adams, Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners – Understanding Covert Incest
97. “According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about that, even as she thwarts her own insight by insisting that it is the ego’s survivability that is finally at issue. Why the ego? After all, if my survivability depends on a relation to others, to a “you” or a set of “yous” without whom I cannot exist, then my existence is not mine alone, but is to be found outside myself, in this set of relations that precede and exceed the boundaries of who I am. If I have a boundary at all, or if a boundary can be said to belong to me, it is only because I have become separated from others, and it is only on condition of this separation that I can relate to them at all. So the boundary is a function of the relation, a brokering of difference, a negotiation in which I am bound to you in my separateness. If I seek to preserve your life, it is not only because I seek to preserve my own, but because who “I” am is nothing without your life, and life itself has to be rethought as this complex, passionate, antagonistic, and necessary set of relations to others. I may lose this “you” and any number of particular others, and I may well survive those losses. But that can happen only if I do not lose the possibility of any “you” at all. If I survive, it is only because my life is nothing without the life that exceeds me, that refers to some indexical you, without whom I cannot be.” ― Judith Butler, Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?
98. “Boundaries are important because they define us. Boundaries give us the freedom to be ourselves and to exercise self-control. They allow us to lead our lives with integrity, even when we’re dealing with challenging people or situations. And, at their core, boundaries protect us from being taken advantage of by others.” ― Unknown
99. “Boundaries are like walls and fences. They define who we are, what we do and don’t do, and set limits on the behaviors of others. Boundaries help us to protect our emotional selves from being taken advantage of, violated, or manipulated.” ― Unknown
100. “Boundaries are a form of respect—we cannot expect others to respect us if we do not respect ourselves first. It is important to set boundaries with people so that we can maintain our self-respect and dignity.” ― Unknown

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Wrapping Up

The 100 boundaries quotes presented here will inspire you and remind you of the importance of being mindful of your own personal boundaries. Whether physically, mentally, or emotionally, it’s important to remember that respecting your limits is an act of self-care and respect for yourself. Thus, these boundary quotes can act as a reminder to take care of yourself and stay true to your own boundaries. By doing so, you’ll be able to build healthier relationships with the people around you.

So take a moment to reflect on these boundary quotes and learn how setting healthy boundaries can help improve your quality of life!