fences

Life is not a harvest. Just because you have an apple doesn__ mean you have an orchard. You have an apple. Put a fence around it. Once you have put a fence around everything you value, then you have the total circle of your heart.

In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer__ yard.

May the fire in your soul, burn down all the fences and walls which this society is trying to build around you.

Bryan helped me up._ "How can you be so good one minute then clumsy the next?"I shrugged._ "I've never been very athletic._ Not unless you count fencing.""You made fences?

There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.

I understand the logic behind removing toxic people from one__ life. But I also understand that many who are __oxic_ are acting out of a painful past_ and that to marginalize someone who__ not known much love is to validate that they don__ matter. To live in the world we desire _ a world of good people, safe places _ requires less fence-building and more heart-building. It requires valuing the worth of all people and loving the hurt as much as possible.

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

People will insist on building high and wide barriers directly in your path, often with the intent of closing you in. If you treat these obstacles like fencing walls, they will prove mightily so. I choose to see them as grand towers meant to be scaled and conquered, providing an added victory as well as a great view of the journey ahead.