“When you can take possession of your own timeline and take up space with your authentic self, everything changes.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“The world is built in a wall that separates kind. Tell either side there's no wall, you've bought a war. Or a slaughter.”— Hampton Fancher, Michael Green, Lt. Joshi, Robin Wright, imdb.com
“These walls are funny. First you hate them, then you get used to them. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized.”— Frank Darabont, Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, Morgan Freeman, imdb.com
“Dennis, if I was looking for safe I wouldn't be sticking my dick through a wall.”— Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, Rob McElhenney, Frank Reynolds, Danny DeVito, imdb.com
“Together with the rest of the world, let us resolve to move forward from the beginnings we have made. Let us continue to bring down the walls of hostility which have divided the world for too long, and to build in their place bridges of understanding--so that despite profound differences between sys…”— Richard Nixon, avalon.law.yale.edu
“He will see the walls built around you, but he will not try to climb. He will wait until you're ready to open the door.”— B. Atkinson, instagram.com
“I don’t know what it is, but he makes me want to knock down all the walls I’ve put up and let him inside. And it scares the shit out of me.”— Kandi Steiner, amazon.com
“Sometimes people mistake vulnerability for weakness, because while others build walls up to prevent anyone from coming in, you bring walls down to let yourself be free.”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com
“But the truth is that the most beautiful moments are born from our rawest selves. When we strike instead of tend, when we withhold instead of divulge, we shrink ourselves. There’s no room to expand within the confines of our protective walls.”— Caitlin Skelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“Be vulnerable. Be the first one to split that wall in half and let love pour onto your riverbank. Let it water your roots and make you whole. Let it see your shortcomings, all your dark angles, and love you the same.”— Lyla Salubo, thoughtcatalog.com
“Be vulnerable! It is not someone else’s responsibility to break down your walls to get to you. It is your responsibility to let them in.”— Alaric Hutchinson, amazon.com
“Will you tell me the truth, or will you hold up your walls? Will they stay strong, or will they fall?”— Dependence, open.spotify.com
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com
“He makes me want to knock down all the walls I’ve put up and let him inside. And it scares the shit out of me.”— Kandi Steiner, amazon.com
“I’d found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.”— Morgan Matson, amazon.com
“The Berlin Wall, retrospectively signifying the imprisonment of a population presume desirous of escaping Soviet domination, was originally conceived as a protective cordon around a fragile new society, a society based on work, cooperation, and egalitarianism, rather than individualism, competition,…”— Wendy Brown, amazon.com