Quotes About Opening Your Heart Again

#1. One part of love is sweet and easy, something we fall into and are swept away by. But the other part is hard: it requires discipline, willpower, and opening your heart again and again to someone with whom you are angry, can't stand, and do not like.

Sam Keen

#2. But wasn't a best friend also someone you could trust not to hurt you? I had hurt Vicki, yet here she was, opening her home and heart to me again. So maybe being a best friend entailed the ability to forgive.

Barbara Delinsky

#3. You have to give to be able to receive.

Jaime Winstone

#4. Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something.

Marla Frazee

#5. Hate nobody; love everybody including people who offend you.

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. Courage is standing still even though you want to run. Courage is planting yourself and turning towards the thing that scares you, whether it's your leg or your friends or the guy who could break your heart again. It's opening your eyes and staring that fear down.

A J Betts

#7. Prayer is a path where there is none.

Noah Benshea

#8. Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

A.R. Ammons

#9. Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.

Natalie Dormer

#10. Who's calling?"
"Don't insult me like that," the voice says.
I stop. Was I just insulting?

Peter Hedges

#11. I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.

Ree Drummond

#12. Culture Clash is a national treasure.

Philip Kan Gotanda