#boundaries

Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary, it is a symptom of serious problems and of poor communication. ↗

— Harriet B. Braiker

#personal-boundaries #relationships #communication

Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relaitonship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose. ↗

— Deborah Day

#friendship #relationships #self-help #friendship

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#drama #friends #friendship #holding-out-for-the-best #honoring-yourself

In those days [high school days], we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#school-days #imagination

That's it on the maps; nature doesn't acknowledge frontiers. Neither can ecology... Where to begin to understand what we've only got a computerspeak label for, ecosystem? Where to decide it begins. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#ecology #ecosystem #nature

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#anyone #boundaries #everyone #hear #his

The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, 'That's enough guys?' ↗

— Selma Blair

#enough #guys #how #i #like

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people. ↗

— Michael Graves

#call #care #i #labels #making

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#failing #idea #ideas #ignores #itself

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. ↗

— David Hilbert

#country #cultural #geographic #knows #mathematics