An Open Heart Quotes

#1. Please maintain an open mind while exploring the depth and wealth of wisdom that is available through the practice of yoga. You may soon come to see the Union of all religions and philosophies if you maintain an open mind and heart.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#2. Love won't come through unless the heart is open. To work with an open heart is to love or care for something or someone more than you do for yourself. This is the first step to the divine love that we all are looking for.

Harold Klemp

#3. Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

Emily Saliers

#4. Open your creative heart like an unfurling flower and petal and share your exquisiteness.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#5. Love and ruin are explained with letters of the alphabet.
The power of the word can describe the glory of the universe. It only requires an open mind and heart.

J.R. Ortiz

#6. The most important therapeutic capacity is the ability to be present with an open heart and to be grounded in our inner being,in our essence and authentic self, in the meditative quality within, through which we can meet another person. It is to meet that which is already perfect within a person.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#7. The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk to people and visit interesting places, and don't forget to ask questions. To be a writer you need to drink in the world around you so it's always there in your head.

Michael Morpurgo

#8. A Soul Mate offers an invitation to fall in love with yourself, so that you are able to open your heart to another. Do you dare?

Catherine Maguire

#9. Unless you do this with an open heart, I don't think anything will come of it.

Amr Waked

#10. You have to love with an open hand. The heart is like a bird and you have to let this bird fly freely, you cannot possess it.

Brandon Bays

#11. It's too hard to present an opinion on something that's not true to who you are. It's much easier to base opinions and debates off of fact and your true heart on things. To me that just comes quite naturally, and it's also about being open to what the debate is about and hearing the other side.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#12. I, I am my own woman. I have not been, quote, 'bred' to look the other way. I look at that man back there in the green room straight on, eyes wide open, and I look at him with an open heart.

Maria Shriver

#13. We are all born with an open heart, but at some point as we are growing up, things happen in our lives where we start to shut down, like rejection, not fitting in, wanting approval, judgments, comparisons, and criticism of others.

Agapi Stassinopoulos

#14. If a poem is concentrated, a closed fist, then a novel is relaxed and expansive, an open hand: it has roads, detours, destinations; a heart line, a head line; morals and money come into it. Where the fist excludes and stuns, the open hand can touch and encompass a great deal in its travels.

Sylvia Plath

#15. The venerable teachers, philosophers & spiritual practitioners throughout history have concluded that the greatest happiness we can experience comes from the development of an open, loving heart.

Allan Lokos

#16. When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement ... To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#17. Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.

Joanna Macy

#18. There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.

Alison Croggon

#19. With an open heart you achieve more than with any theory and philosophy.

Helena Kalivoda

#20. The wisdom of other cultures is one of the greatest gifts that a traveler can bring home. It takes no room in your suitcase - only an open mind and an open heart.

Peggy Kopman-Owens

#21. The secret to happiness is to embrace the humility to accept what comes and the courage to continue on your life's path with an open heart.

Mary Alice Monroe

#22. God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.

Matthew Kelly

#23. The protesters, in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv, revealed an open and raw wound at the heart of Israeli society, the pain of a community crying out over a sense of discrimination, racism, and of being unanswered.

Reuven Rivlin

#24. A closed heart only creates misery and sadness. An open heart creates love and happiness.

G.E.F. Neilson

#25. Unconditional Love is a perpetual emotion machine. It inspires us to include others. The longer I am bathed in its radiance, the more I find myself looking at others with an open heart. I can look past their faults and love them. I can say, "I may not like the things you do, but I love you.

Rosa Marchisella

#26. I believe that God has a plan, and it's your job to show up with an open heart.

Rosie O'Donnell

#27. Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

Phil Jackson

#28. Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana is a reflection of how rich India's poor are at heart. Without any obligation to put any money in the 0 balance accounts, they didn't open an empty account.

Narendra Modi

#29. And so I recognized that my sojourn into open-heart territory was ultimately an open heart journey in another sense, a spiritual journey of awakening - to the reality that I am here in this life with a purpose, and have been from the day I was born.

Maggie Lichtenberg

#30. Love like an anvil had cracked my locked heart open and unleashed an excruciating flow of tenderness

Krista Bremer

#31. The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, and we learn about Him in its pages. We know that it has great power. It has the power to change lives. It has the power to convert. If you read it with an open heart, you will know that it is the word of God and that it is true.

Henry B. Eyring

#32. Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#33. The things that can restore us have to get in, too. This is what the wisdom of an open heart is all about. All the spiritual traditions speak of this but I love the Tibetan tradition: "A spiritual warrior always has a crack in his heart because that is how the mysteries can get in."

Mark Nepo

#34. Let your broken heart create an open heart

Rick Warren

#35. A simple word of greeting, an offer of a cup of coffee on me, a smile and a hug will all go a long way toward reconciliation. A listening ear can open a wandering heart to the thought that God still loves them, and there just might be a place still set for them at their Father's table.

Katherine J. Walden

#36. Keep an open heart
To allow the world
Lovingly and faithfully
To come in.

Sri Chinmoy

#37. If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.

Paulo Coelho

#38. Live each day with an open heart. Everything you are, feel and do must come from your heart, if you are to be truly you. Believe in love and trust that you will find the answers you seek.

Louise Courey Nadeau

#39. What I've found is that country doesn't refer to where you grew up as much as where your heart grows down, where it takes root. Country is a state of mind. I believe what ultimately defines being country is simple: a loving heart, a helping hand, an open mind, poor in spirit.

Clay Walker

#40. An open mind and heart usually lead you to those who have the same.

Jeffrey Fry

#41. By anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind.

Errico Malatesta

#42. Any ninny with an honest heart, a scheming family, and an open purse can do that.

Philippa Gregory

#43. Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go ... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.

Stephen Holden

#44. The pain in my heart was worse than anything I ever imagined. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't think. All I could feel was the void of her absence growing stronger inside me, and the panic of not ever seeing her eyes open again struck me like an iron whip.

Nely Cab

#45. The heartstone burns, fierce an true. I bin missin him so deep. It hurts my heart to see him agin. I open my mouth to call his name. I stop myself. His head snaps in my direction. Like he knows I'm here.

Moira Young

#46. Hello Year 2017
I welcome you with open heart. Once again I'm ready to take another step towards my dreams, I'm willing to learn and I'm willing to make an effort to achieve my set goals in Jesus name.

Euginia Herlihy

#47. We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?

Jack Kornfield

#48. I have been all over this world of ours and I have found only one truth to be universal no matter what culture, people or country, I have visited. If you there with an open hand, an open heart, a smile, and demonstrating a little respect for those you me, you will always find yourself welcome.

Michael Leslie

#49. God, she looked like an angel from this angle as she sat in the sunlight that streamed in from a nearby open window. I was hoping with all my heart that what I was about to tell her, wouldn't make this angel fall.

Angela Richardson

#50. Like a peacock, dance with an open mind and a loving heart to reveal your incredible beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#51. And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously don't have our best interests [at heart].

Jason Whitlock

#52. It's really interesting how music can knock down a wall and be an open connection between you and someone else where something else can't. When music comes along, it just opens your heart a little more.

Phillip Sweet

#53. Look into the world
how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind an appearance of piety, and putting on the garb of religion, which none but the merciful and compassionate have a title to wear.

Laurence Sterne

#54. As we open our hearts, what we notice is that information starts opening up for us in an unfolding process, as if life were being revealed layer by layer.

Catherine Carrigan

#55. My true friends, and my son, see me with kind eyes. I feel it. So that's the freedom my children have given me. To be naked in the world with an open heart.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#56. There is love in everything, and when we really live and view life with an open heart (and live in our truth), the light illuminates the way.

Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

#57. Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

Bret Easton Ellis

#58. Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#59. I am transparent An open book; There's no choice in the matter But the breath from my mind Is living air, And the notes from my heart Are what I share. Words weren't made for cowards.

Happy Rhodes

#60. When we give with love and joy, and accept with an open heart and deep gratitude, abundance fills our emptiness.

Debasish Mridha

#61. The Lord our King will hold the door of His heart open for anyone who wants to enter for an audience at any time

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#62. My tats were but temporal attempts to heal my soul, as my heart remained an open wound.

S.R. Grey

#63. Love with an open heart. Live with an open mind.

Debasish Mridha

#64. Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.

Bob Seger

#65. You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

Alice Walker

#66. Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes with open hands and open heart; lust comes with only an open appetite.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#67. To welcome the present with an open hand and heart, let your past go with appreciation.

Debasish Mridha

#68. The alternative to pain may be worse. When you live with an open heart, you will inevitably get hurt. The alternative of living a life closed off from experience, however, is barren. Ironically, it also still involves suffering. In fearing pain, we already feel the pain from our fear.

Ann Brasco

#69. Listen with an open heart

William O'Brien

#70. My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.

Nikki Reed

#71. Love is an essential ingredient in all miracles as it is only love that heals. Techniques don't heal. Where there is an open heart there is the energy to bring through miraculous and magical energy. Love is the great transformer.

Sandra Ingerman

#72. I thank God for giving me the open heart to accept people that come to my life without judging them. I thank Him to give me an ear and patience to listen and to give me the tongue and words of wisdom to speak life as much as I can not to condemn them. It's a such rewarding feeling.

Euginia Herlihy

#73. *We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more.
It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone who smells bad. It's hard.

Elizabeth Berg

#74. I nod in the darkness. He embraces me and before long he's fast asleep, a man with clear consiense and an open heart. I stay awake, listening to his breath and thinking of the webs we weave.

Lizbeth Gabriel

#75. When the fire of your soul ignites the passion within your heart, don't view it as an opportunity for success or failure, view it as an open door for miracles.

Jennifer Finney Boylan

#76. Love every child without condition, listen with an open heart, get to know who they are, what they love, and follow more often than you lead.

Adele Devine

#77. If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

Mitch Albom

#78. The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

Simon Armitage

#79. Have an open mind and heart. Learn to journey in understanding and forgiveness. It's not always going to be easy but it will be worth it.

Alexandra Elle

#80. But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach,
And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling,
The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake,
Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road
A gateless garden, and an open path:
My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#81. Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

Brene Brown

#82. The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

Taiye Selasi

#83. A broken heart is an open heart.

Jandy Nelson

#84. In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth.

John Kasich

#85. I just love creating an environment where people can open up and say what's on their mind and in their heart.

Elizabeth Berkley

#86. Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world.

Anne Lamott

#87. Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.

Richard J. Foster

#88. Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.

Pema Chodron

#89. An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

David W Augsburger

#90. There's only about about 6 to 8 inches between an open book and a human being's heart. A lot can happen in those 7 inches. Perspectives, fresh perspectives occur and minds expand, and I love fiction and I feel like it's a possibility for transformation.

Aline Ohanesian

#91. When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

Paul McCartney

#92. I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else.

Jane Seymour

#93. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between people.

Mitch Albom

#94. It is only by seeing beauty in everything that we can see it in any one single thing, day after day. Don't run into the arms of obsession, for that quickly fades. Long lasting love comes from an open, loving heart.

Vironika Tugaleva

#95. When you are mindful of Spirit and connecting to the breath with an open heart, that is yoga.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#96. May there never be a haze over your eyes, and allow you to look at your life just the way you planned it. Through the bumps, twist and turns in your journey, let it make you wiser. Embrace life's lessons with gratitude and appreciation, and then move forward with an open heart and mind.

Ron Baratono

#97. I don't believe in an art that is not born out of man's need to open his heart.

Edvard Munch

#98. The greatest asset you could own, is an open heart.

Nikki Rowe

#99. The way to fight fear is to do what you are afraid of. And the way to fight pain is to live with it, with an open heart.

Auliq Ice

#100. I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.

Caleb Landry Jones