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Quotes About Barriers

Those women who fought the original battles suffer more than most. Hated and opposed when originally pushing down the barriers, they now often have to face contempt from a society which takes for granted their achievements.
~ Rosalind Coward
What a child doesn't realize until he is grown is that in responding to fantasy, fairy tale, and myth he is responding to what Erich Fromm calls the one universal language, the one and only language in the world that cuts across all barriers of time, place, race, and culture.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
What is required of us is restraint and humility. We can put up barriers on bridges to make it more difficult for that momentary impulse to become permanent. We can instruct young people that the kind of reckless drinking that takes place at a fraternity party makes the task of reading others all but impossible. There are clues to making sense of a stranger.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
What is required of us is restraint and humility. We can put up barriers on bridges to make it more difficult for that momentary impulse to become permanent. We can instruct young people that the kind of reckless drinking that takes place at a fraternity party makes the task of reading others all but impossible. There are clues to making sense of a stranger. But attending to them requires care and attention
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The keys of happiness and success lie beyond your fear fences. Jump over the fences NOW
~ Mohammed Sekouty
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test yout limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossum.
~ Anais Nin
Modern mass culture, aimed at the consumer, the civilization of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Your own body becomes used as evidence that the walls of which you speak are not there or are no longer there; as if you have eliminated the walls through your own progression. You got through, so they are not there.
~ Sara Ahmed
I was profoundly shy growing up, and my sense of human sociality was of something from which I was barred: almost like a room with a locked door for which I did not have the key. Perhaps that was it: gender seemed like a key to a lock, which I did not have, or which I did not fit. Looking back, I think I decided to self-girl when I went to university, as I was exhausted by not fitting or not fitting in.
~ Sara Ahmed
Too many locks, not enough keys.
~ Sarah Dessen
Sometimes even the shortest distance can be impossible to navigate, whether you went road or shore or some other route.
~ Sarah Dessen
Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people that little else has...It is more powerful in govenments in breaking down racial barriers.
~ John Carlin
Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people that little else has. . . . It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.
~ John Carlin
I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
~ Ann Patchett
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~ Edward J. Larson
Certainty and confidence, break and remove all barriers between every figure and subject of life.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Love and status cannot stay, together in one heart and mind since status ranks, and builds barriers naturally. Therefore, I terminate my status, whatever it exhibits, to prove a true lover, for the crown of the beloved's kingdom.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Whatever flaws never become barriers to true love.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
El mundo es un muro de piedra -pensaba-, y han puesto las piedras tan juntas que no hay ni una sola rendija por la que uno pueda entrar.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Getting to know a difficult piece of music is comparable with getting to know a person who does not immediately reveal him- or herself, or who may appear to erect barriers against intimacy.
~ Anthony Storr
An education is a powerful lever that improves—but doesn't guarantee—the chances that someone can overcome adversity and make it in spite of the barriers. The myth of the American dream really is a myth.
~ Anton Treuer
The people who have closed mind do find NO SENSE in the open heart communication/conversation done by a person.
~ Anuj Somany
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi
~ Arielle Ford
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger