“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
She believed, rightly, that gives you purpose and helps you heal. So I always do my best to forgive and move forward.<br><br>On the lessons that her Dutch mother (who was interned in a Japanese internment camp during WWII) instilled in her in “Interview: Jane Seymour on finding love again at 64” https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/interview-jane-seymour-on-finding-love-again-at-64-1-3911978 in The Scotsman (2015 Oct 10)
“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
Bart Bull American journalist
Spin magazine, 1988
“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Variant: Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart...
Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
“What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it”
Edward Albee (1928–2016) American playwright
Variant: You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
“There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.”
M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist
Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
The Kidney-shaped Stone that Moves Every Day (translated by Jay Rubin)
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman