Opening Our Hearts Quotes:

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

- Pema Chodron

topic: Teacher, Inspirational Love, Peace, Opening Our Hearts

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

- Thornton Wilder

source: Thornton Wilder (1958). “The Cabala ; The Woman of Andros”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

- William Thomas Ellis

topic: Christmas, Heart, Air, Gifts Of The Spirit, Family Holiday

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.

- Pema Chodron

topic: Love, Inspirational, Heart, Opening Our Hearts

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Love, Life, Friendship, If You Love Someone, Marriage Advice

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

- Helen Keller

topic: Christmas, Real, Heart, Christmas Time, Opening Our Hearts

In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Ronald Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.263, Humanix Books

topic: Heart, Understanding, Might, Opening Our Hearts

In the end, we have nothing to lose by opening our hearts.

- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

topic: Heart, Nothing To Lose, Ends, Opening Our Hearts

It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Lack Of Compassion, Opening Our Hearts, Lack Of Love, No Compassion, Compassion For Others

He talks about God, and loving God. he says that when we open to loving a person, whether that person is a spouse, friend, or child, we open our hearts to loving God. He says when we let someone love us, we're opening our hearts to god's love. he says the acts are the same. p 19 I decide loving isn't for the fain. Its for the courageous. p 19

- Melody Beattie

topic: Children, Heart, Courageous, Opening Our Hearts

For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.

- Nick Rahall

topic: Relationship, Prayer, Believe, Opening Our Hearts

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

- Parker J. Palmer

topic: Heart, People, Community, Opening Our Hearts, Tugging

We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to our deepest convictions. ...When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.

- Paul Rogat Loeb

source: Paul Rogat Loeb (2010). “Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times”, p.30, Macmillan

topic: Heart, Voice, Giving, Opening Our Hearts, Giving Voice