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Quotes About Openness

Loving you changed everything for me. Being loved by you opened everything for me. Every day is more.
~ J.D. Robb
Some people relax better without the confines of clothes," Peabody said, then flushed when Eve cast a considering glance over her shoulder. "I've heard.
~ J.D. Robb
Every religion should be open to questions and change.
~ J.D. Robb
The world is more various than we ever give it credit for.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Phury? No, I'm not gay. Don't feel like you need to hide it or anything. I wouldn't. I'm just not. You bi, then?
~ J.R. Ward
Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. I have wanted to, but he holds back. I hope...I believe it is because he wishes to mate me properly first, in ceremony. Payne felt the awful weight of premonition. Beware, sister. You are a gentle soul. Layla got to her feet, her smile now saddened. Yes, I am. But I would rather my heart be broken than unopened and I know that one must ask if one is to receive.
~ J.R. Ward
And I'll try harder to always tell you what I'm feeling.
~ Jaci Burton
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
~ Jack Kerouac
What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
~ Jack Kerouac
It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.
~ Jack Kerouac
To the children and the innocent it's all the same.
~ Jack Kerouac
You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
~ Jack Kerouac
That Rollo Greb is the greatest, most wonderful of all. That's what I was trying to tell you - that's what I want to be. I want to be like him. He's never hung-up, he goes every direction, he lets it all out, he knows time, he has nothing to do but rock back and forth. Man, he's the end! You see, if you go like him all the time you'll finally get it.
~ Jack Kerouac
It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow
~ Jack Kerouac
What's your road, man? – holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.
~ Jack Kerouac
Be in love with everything .
~ Jack Kerouac
He began to learn Yes! to everything, just like Dean at this time, and hasn't stopped since.
~ Jack Kerouac
Accept loss forever Be submissive to everything, open, listening No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, knowledge Be in love with your life.
~ Jack Kerouac
What's your road, man?—holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
~ Jack Kerouac
We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
~ Jack Kornfield
If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
~ Jack Kornfield
When a man journeys into a far country, he must be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and to acquire such customs as are inherent with existence in the new land; he must abandon the old ideals and the old gods, and oftentimes he must reverse the very codes by which his conduct has hitherto been shaped.
~ Jack London
When certain doors opened around 'Twin Peaks,' I wasn't interested in walking through them. Now I just feel like I'm more open to life. I have two children. My life is not dependent on the business in that way.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
I often eat Skippy's Super Chunk peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I don't shamefully sneak it in the dark of night when everyone is in bed. I just twist that cap off and go to town right out in the open.
~ Willie Geist