Doorways Quote by David Whyte Download Open image “Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.” — David Whyte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doorways Grief Grief and loss Honesty Loss
Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Honesty is first chapter in the book of character.Being honest to self is the most cherished blessing. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill? — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with, it is the mother of the thing you fear. The very thing… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but the child… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Work, like marriage, is a place you can lose yourself more easily perhaps than finding yourself. It is a place full of powerful undercurrents,… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“...wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen.” — David Whyte Copy Share Image
It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can be a… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Yelena.” I halted in the doorway, looking back over my shoulder. “You once said I wasn’t ready to believe your reason for killing Reyad.… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire… — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
She was standing in the airport of Copenhagen, staring at a doorway, trying to figure out if it was (a) a bathroom and (b)… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren’t good, you might discover… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
