Emotional Boundaries Quotes

“First and foremost, if we maintain healthy emotional boundaries and direct love and kindness inwards, we are taking care of ourselves and secondly we are giving a subliminal message to others about how we wish to be treated. People tend to subconsciously treat us how we treat ourselves.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

“... when the physical and emotional boundaries of one's life were small, when one had walked every inch of one's allotted space many times over, it was easy to forget ignorance and feel a sort of mastery, instead.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“You don’t have to fight to leave a toxic friendship, just quietly choose peace, protect your energy, and walk away with your dignity intact.”
― Ayoub Imilouane

“We aren't responsible for the sins of our parents. And neither must we bear their pain. This doesn't mean turning our backs on our forebears. We can send our love back to them, across the centuries. But on their behalf and ours, we can follow the bittersweet tradition, and transform their troubles into something better.”
― Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

“It's not true belonging if you have to betray yourself in order to stay. And it's not real love if you have to abandon yourself to make it last.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“I kept making room for you,
until one day
I realised
there was no room left for me.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul