86 Quotes About Opening-up

You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.

Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

Writing is a way of opening up to the world.

It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.

What's the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don't notice your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things.

I was always alone, Doc, solitary whether I wished to be or not, ever since I could remember I wished to be lost in another, thought that somehow I could disappear into that heart of yours, take walks within your veins, wander through the bones of you. You had friends, Satan said, you loved and were loved, you must not forget that, at least not that. But did I allow anyone in, I asked Satan, and he said, Did you, does anyone?

Love is supposed to be based on trust, and trust on love, it's something rare and beautiful when people can confide in each other without fearing what the other person will think.

When all you know is sea and the sky, everything on land is something to look at.

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.