Quotes About Barrier

Love was its own transparent bubble-dome: you could see the two inside it, but you couldn't get in there yourself. That

And when I go that way, grow fur, start howling, scratch at your airwaves: no matter who I claim I am or how I love you, turn the key. Bar the window.

When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!

The door to the secrets of Eastern Europe was shut against us.

There was a certain liberation in talking to a man who didn't have a full grasp of English. She could tell him anything and half of it would fly right past him, especially if the words came tumbling out fast enough

My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...The reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.

insulation prevents you from making the change and finding the understanding you set out to achieve in the first place.

She was dying and he was not, and that was a barrier not even love could breach.

If we are nothing, there is nothing at all to serve as a barrier to our boundless expression of love. Being nothing in this way, we are also, inevitably, everything. 'Everything' does not mean self-aggrandizement, but a decisive recognition of interconnection; we are not separate. Both the clear, open space of 'nothing' and the interconnected mess of 'everything' awakens us to our true nature.

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.

Shall I show you the door...or would you rather go out through the wall? - Maris

Babe, I don't know you and my no zone has a very short guest list. Consider my belt the velvet rope no one crosses without an express invitation.

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

Futurist sculpture creates ideal new forms by using motion to break down the barrier between an object and its surroundings. To join the object's exterior plastic infinity to its interior plastic infinity.

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar. 

The great chasm between the thing I say, & the thing I would say, wd be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.

Sometimes the paths that lead back to places get blocked.

Strong is on the inside, a root that keeps you standing whatever might hit you. But hard is only on the outside, this shield you put up to keep all the pain on the inside from showing. The soft inside is still there even when you don't let yourself see it. And the shell keeps you safe, but it also keeps the good things from penetrating; love and trust and joy.

The possibility that popular participation and growing material affluence might serve as a barrier to the growth of the totalitarian state never occurred to Burckhardt. Instead, he concluded, "I know too much history to expect anything from the despotism of the masses except tyranny, which will be the end of history.

Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.

He shrugged. "I don't know either. I can't read Frog-speak.

a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

That's why you should always start with this question: What is making this behavior hard to do?