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.
we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.
These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.
Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.
How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.