Fences can be prisons, in a way. They’re necessary for those incapable of learning restraint, but they diminish life.
– Tamera Alexander
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- The keys of happiness and success lie beyond your fear fences. Jump over the fences NOW – Mohammed Sekouty
- I climb fences when i got fences to climb. – John Steinbeck
- Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience. – Doris Lessing
- Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. – Oscar Wilde
- The mind is the foundation for the next life. The foundation of the body will diminish [in this life itself]. – Dada Bhagwan
- Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning. – Mark Batterson
- … just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul. – Pope John XXIII
- Do not allow your life to diminish without reproducing it. – Sunday Adelaja
- May the fire in your soul, burn down all the fences and walls which this society is trying to build around you. – Akshay Vasu
- Maybe there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feeling bears you like a tide. – Jodie Picoult
- Our freedom of mobility has helped keep this nation free. We are eagles, not herds of cattle. Eagles are much harder to corral with fences. – Tom King
- Laziness builds walls and fences that keep the mind under control. – Auliq Ice
- If you put fences around people, you get sheep. – William L McKnight
- He was free-free to choose to swing from a tree for the afternoon rather than mend fences or train horses. He was free to live. – Elizabeth Michels
- … With a slight miscalculated leap cleared to the iron picket fence. Put the fear of God into me, picket fences and balls don’t mix. – JP Donleavy
- It is the restraint of patience that yields the magnificent in life. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- The secret of all greatness is to not allow time diminish without converting it into a product of greatness. – Sunday Adelaja
- The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them… – Stephen King
- Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to diminish the majorities mediocrity. – Anthony Corlisatra
- A flower does not diminish in beauty, no matter how many weeds envy it. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- -‹I wanted to present Neuroscience to people in a way that would diminish their differences. – Abhijit Naskar
- Our capacity can grow or diminish, and either way, the results compound over time. – Audrey Moralez
- When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own. – Bren Brown
- If someone suffers enough pain and abuse, his volitional capacities will diminish to nothing. – David L Conroy
- Don’t be content with your judgments. They diminish you. – Walter E Jacobson
- Naive inflationism demands an increase in the quantity of money without suspecting that this will diminish the purchasing power of the money. – Ludwig von Mises
- Be ambitious, Spend time wanting, pursuing, wishing. Chase things with passion. Dream but never let the chase diminish what you already have. – Unknown
- Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. – Audre Lorde
- The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. – Cheryl Hughes
- Preparing for your journey in the most thorough way possible will not diminish your experiences abroad. It will enhance them. – Bailey Richert
- He fought for his very survival. If he fought dirty sometimes that does not diminish the fact that he refused to give up. – Nancy Milford
- Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. – Alberto Manguel
- There are worse prisons than words. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say. – Criss Jami
- Aren’t we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits? – Ruthy Alon
- Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. – Gregory David Roberts
- Exhale the remnants/Of wounds that steal your freedom./No more prisons. Breathe. – Staci Backauskas
- The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption. – Kelseyleigh Reber
- It is. And yet so few really are free. Nearly all people live in prisons of their own making, regardless of their faith, creed, sex or race. – Ted Dekker
- Places of confinement providing free food and medical care are called prisons. – John Lilly