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Quotes About Openness

He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.
~ Rumi
Close the language-door, and open the love-window
~ Rumi
Submit to love without thinking
~ Rumi
I really think it's important for people to let each other know exactly how they feel when it comes to love!
~ Sydney Sierota
It is good to love many things
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Open to others as you would like them to open to you.
~ Gary Zukav
If we open our hearts to give love we are immediately transported into the joy and blessings of love.
~ Genevieve
...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.
~ Hanif Kureishi
I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.
~ Jennifer Aniston
I'm a woman who likes to be courted, strongly. Never say never, I guess you'd say. I'll let love take the lead on that.
~ Katy Perry
When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you're expansive, no matter what the weather, you're in an open, windy field with friends.
~ Rumi
I open and fill with LOVE and what is not LOVE ... evaporates!
~ Rumi
I'm tired of having to hide my feelings about the person I care about. About the person I love.
~ Sheryl Swoopes
Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love.
~ Simone Elkeles
I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.
~ Truman Capote
Sure. I've never dated a woman of anything like that, But, I mean, I think it's much more the person that you fall in love with – and why would you close yourself off to fifty percent of the people?
~ Natalie Portman
Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.
~ Brigitte Boisselier
We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway. To let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel. While I am here.
~ Maurice Sendak
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
~ Max Lerner
one of the privileges of old age was that no holds were barred. You were permitted to be absolutely honest.
~ May Sarton
Not enough has been said of the value of a life lived alone in that it is lived in a house with an open door, with room for the stranger, for the new friend to be taken in and cherished.
~ May Sarton
The truth of her nature gave out an undimmed light—and all her love of beauty, and of persons, was made poignant by this imperishable integrity." Her strength came from very deep and had nothing to do with discipline or control. She never became a character, set in her ways, but remained to the end a nature, rich and open to life, able to deal with radical change and to welcome it.
~ May Sarton
Love opens the doors into everything.. including, and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
~ May Sarton
I wish we could stop the little lies. I don't mean that one has to be brutally frank. I don't believe that we should be brutal about anything, however, it is wonderfully liberating to be honest. One does not have to tell all that one knows, but we should be careful what we say is the truth.
~ Maya Angelou