Being Open Quotes

“No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“Last night I sat at dinner
And observed my family
Playing Hide and Seek all evening.
Today I woke and thought of you
About how real you’ve made my life…
The only condition? Love itself.
Tonight I weep
And think of how
I love and want and need you.
But I don't tell you. No.
I am too busy playing Hide and Seek
To let you know.”
― Kate McGahan

“Don’t be adamant; don’t make up your mind about all the things that don’t even have anything at all to do with you. Don’t be too quick to define right and wrong. Life has a way of putting the adamant person into the very situations they’ve made up their minds about, in order to change those very decisions. So, unless you want the things that you judge in others to happen to you, you’d better live and let live.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Nothing in life is a foregone conclusion unless and until it is foregone and concluded”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“It takes enormous courage and humility to be open to others to find out who we really are.”
― Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience

“If you do not let yourself be seen, you cannot see.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“...It wasn't that I couldn't open up; it was just that I needed to control the information. I needed to think about it in advance, I needed to look at the pages of my journal in the middle of the night and consider which ones to type.

But I was disappointed. I wished I could do it over again and feel what it would have been like not to hold back. I had been given a chance to be known, and I had not taken it...Everyone else had taken a risk...and come out closer.

...for years I'd still be standing on that stage, not knowing what I wanted, to withhold or to reveal, to yield or to protect. Refusal was safer: less risk...The gestures I committed to were self-denial and containment. But was that really what I wanted? Because for years I'd still wonder what it would be like not to hold tight...what it would be like to say.”
― Susan Burton, Empty

“What would it be like to admit that aloud - that you were angry, that the day had worn on you, to say those things, and to feel them, without worrying how they might look to whoever you were talking to? To let the ugly emotions you harbored, your anger and dissatisfaction and irritation, seep into your words without censoring them.”
― Kelly Loy Gilbert, When We Were Infinite

“When we are OPEN, we have freedom, courage and creativity - not just to explore uncharted territories where intuition may lead, but also to move beyond limits.”
― Zamm Zamudio, Intuition: Discover the Inner Workings of our World - Book 1

“And as often happens with grief, this melancholy of mine began to include more than just my own experiences. When your heart breaks, anyone or anything can tumble in.”
― Sarah Bessey, Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith