I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of honesty and openness in relationships.
Charles Dickens’ quote highlights the idea that once we share our true feelings and thoughts with someone, it becomes impossible to retract that vulnerability. It speaks to the deep connections and commitments we form when we express our innermost thoughts, suggesting that true intimacy involves the courage to expose our hearts without reservation.
In practice
During a conversation about trust in a relationship, this quote can emphasize the need for openness.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life.
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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