Quotes of: Open-doors Keyword

If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes.

Myself with Others: Selected Essays

It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

The Moving Finger

The night of my accident, when I opened my eyes and you were there? Seeing you again, Rebecca...It was like someone let the air back into the room.

Midnight Heat

The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean.It only has to open it's beak

Minaret

They're fanatics. It's like expecting humanity from a falling rock. It's not going to have a fit of compassion and not crack your skull open.

Magic Slays

For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

Nature, Man and God

If he didn’t want to talk about it, I wouldn’t mention anything. I wanted him to open it up for me, not me intruding and asking questions to him.

Not a Melodious Harmony

It is so easy to have our eyes opened, but then close them again, pretend it never happened, and go back to doing what has always been done.

Never on Sundays: A Novel

To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us.

Naikan: Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection

Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.

The Lying Game

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

Valor in the leader is often an expression of the leader's character, fortitude, grace, vulnerability, openness, and honesty.

Leading Valiantly in Healthcare: Four Steps to Sustainable Success

I opened my eyes and met his dark, earnest gaze. "It's okay," I said. "It's okay now. I'm here I'll always be here for you.

Last Sacrifice

The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare. Alexia did not speak glare-ish.

Soulless

I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

Speak, Memory

Life provides chances to open your heart all the time.

The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, & Soul Mates

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves