Opening Quotes

“Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.”
― Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

“ Thinking of you, wherever you are.
 We pray for our sorrows to end,
 and hope that our hearts will blend.
 Now I will step forward to realize this wish.
 And who knows:
 Starting a new journey may not so hard
 or maybe it has already begun.
 There are many worlds,
 but they share the same sky-
 one sky, one destiny.”
― Tetsuya Nomura

“How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give images of hesitation, temptation, desire, security, welcome and respect. If one were to give an account of all the doors one has closed and opened, of all the doors one would like to re-open, one would have to tell the story of one's entire life.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

“Each bud that opens embraces becoming
as if it has never happened before.
Do you?”
― Shellen Lubin

“Listen to my story, this may be our last chance.”
― Tidus Final Fantasy X

“Go to the beginning.”
― Pattie Mallette, Nowhere But Up: The Story of Justin Bieber's Mom

“The spiders will always hatch out of the flowers. But now I like to think about the moments before, when they're just flowers, blooming, and they can be pinched closed, so all that prettiness last a little longer before the inevitable horror comes.”
― Derek Milman, Scream All Night

“It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, "Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor. Una olla de algo más vaca que carnero, salpicón las más noches, duelos y quebrantos los sábados, lentejas los viernes, algún palomino de añadidura los domingos, conmuían las tres partes de su hacienda. El resto della concluían sayo de velarte, calzas de velludo para las fiestas, con sus pantuflos de los mesmo, y los días de entresemana se honraba con su vellorí de lo más fino.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha

“Good luck and welcome to the Drupal community!”
― VanDyk, Pro Drupal Development

“A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set its mark upon him. . . .”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

“The sun woke at the dawn of the day. Nova woke up, brushing her hair quickly. She brushed her teeth, and then she hurried into the kitchen where her adoptive mother, Silvia, had waited for her. Silvia had adopted Nova when she was just a baby, left on the castle's front steps. It was from then on that Silvia raised her as her daughter.”
― bellatuscana, Finding Time

“Cosmic love is your birthright. Meditative sensitivity opens you up to the higher realms of existence. The explosive cosmic and soul love we seek can only be experienced when your heart is fully open first.”
― Shalom Melchizedek, Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships

“Love opens us, as an earthquake opens the earth.”
― Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman

“Buckmester County was in a time warp.”
― Monika Barbara Potocki, Mirusia

“Monogamous relationships can be based on fear: fear of losing my partner because he might fall in love with another woman, or fear that she may find a more secure man with a deeper purpose than my own to guide and protect her.
“Nevertheless it also can be based on love where our commitment to open and be opened by one intimate partner becomes our way to express love for him or her, our children, friends, and ultimately the whole world and Source.”
― Nityananda Das

“To make the best dicision for a book first check out the title, second check out the cover, third to check out the category what type is it - is it a horror or thriller or it's a psychology - it's important this. Then for sure check out little what's about the book. By openning it and reading the first 3 pages or as much as possible to make your decision!”
― Deyth Banger

“Leadership is about opening minds to possibilities once closed from believing in impossibilities.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“I was a stranger who didn't realize I was opening the wrong door.”
― Nitya Prakash

“But listen, actually I love what I'm doing. And making parts for doors - I think it's the most important job a man can have."
She started to laugh but he raised a hand to stop her. "I'm not joking. Think about it. What would civilization be without a door? Think of what a closed door can hide - tears, intimate relations, scandals, murders, mysteries, family secrets, national secrets. Countries spend millions trying to get behind each other's closed doors, no? So do lovers, Conversely, think of what an open door symbolizes - an invitation into someone's home, someone's heart, an entry into a kitchen, a dining room, a bank vault, even" - here his voice dripped a notch - "a bedroom. And what is it that makes it possible to have all those doors opening and shutting?" He paused, looking at her expectantly.
Tehmina felt dizzy under the spell of Ruston's words. "What?" she said stupidly.
"Hinges," he yelled triumphantly. "It's the humble hinge that lets one decide whether to lock the world out or to let it in. See why what I do is so important?”
― Thrity Umrigar, If Today Be Sweet

“How to Jump: Once again we stand before our audience. The _Others_ wait for us to speak. Still we ask, how can we jump free? How can we speak. I say, turn inward. Feel the fear. Again, touch where it resides—yes, just above the solar plexus, that one glowing spot in painful spasm. Feel it. for there we can begin with something we know is _real_. And now can we jump?

Sometimes when I begin a speech, I look each member of the audience in the eyes. In a large group it sometimes takes a half minute or more. The silence grows uncomfortable. the people stare back. I hear the nervous coughs. But something has happened between us. Without words, I have shared with them the same feelings I suffer. I have felt fear, and then turn, have felt its discomfort in the pressing silence in the room.

Finally I begin, “It’ is all right for us to feel uncomfortable as we launch our relationship. We do not know each other. We have no experience upon which to trust each other. Why shouldn’t we feel uncomfortable. I wondered as I looked at you what you expect of me. What do you think of me? And as I look at you, you too, must have wondered what I am thinking of you.” I have jumped. “We are going to have a valuable time together.” I have broken free.”
― Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Every Day

“Sublime and tender...
like the opening of the petals of a flower.”
― Avijeet Das

“Faith is envisioning a closed-door opening, even if you do not know how it will eventually happen.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes

“People were wondering why the Desoto Solar Farm community opening had been canceled and replaced by a small group of invite only guests with President Obama.”
― Steven Magee

“The Desoto Solar Farm launch was one of the most boring days of my life! We were standing around in the Florida heat for hours waiting for President Obama to show up!”
― Steven Magee

“When we least expect it, a new door opens on its own, to take us where we belong.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Every revolution

Tests a surface,
Click, opens a lock.”
― Ailish Hopper

“The darkness is expanding—sixty days of night looming on the horizon—so I step out onto my porch and take a deep breath, the cold air burning my nostrils and making my lungs ache. There is so much to do, so much pain to repurpose into the void. I rub my hands together to warm them, already dressed in layers—long thermal underwear over boxers, two pairs of wool socks—with more to come. The morning is brisk, hoarfrost sparkling across the snow-covered ground, but I know I can’t stand here for long. I inhale again—juniper, salt, a whiff of fish, my own musk—and take in my humble abode, knowing that the season is upon us, preparing for what will come. It is both invigorating and daunting at the same time. (Opening paragraph, first chapter.)”
― Richard Thomas, Incarnate: A Novel