Quotations about

Openness

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

—Miguel de Unamuno

I deserve passion. I deserve to be loved—in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.

—Loretta Chase in Silk Is For Seduction

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

—Pema Chödrön

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

—Oliver Herford

Monetary donations to a spiritual cause, contributions of physical labor, involvement with a particular guru, none of these necessarily mean that we have actually committed ourselves to openness. More likely these kinds of commitments are simply ways of proving that we have joined the side of "right.

—Chögyam Trungpa