Life can't give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms.
Interpretation
To receive the good in life, one must be open and receptive.
This quote emphasizes the importance of openness in various aspects of life. It suggests that to truly receive the blessings and opportunities that life offers, one must be willing to let go of resistance and embrace changes. By opening your mind, heart, and arms, you become more receptive to love, knowledge, and experiences, fostering a richer and more fulfilling existence.
In practice
This quote can be used as an inspirational message during a motivational speech on personal growth.
Be grateful for what you do have, and you will find it increases. I like to bless with love all that is in my life right now-my home, the heat, water, light, telephone, furniture, plumbing, appliances, clothing, transportation, jobs-the money I do have, friends, my ability to see and feel and taste and touch and walk and to enjoy this incredible planet.
Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.
Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.
Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into yesterday's mental garbage to create today's experiences?
Don't settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities you really want in the relationship. Develop those qualities in yourself and you will attract a person who has them.
You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.
He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.
I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able to write 'The Pura Principle' back in those days, I'm positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false.
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
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