Openness Quotes

One should show one's scars, not hide them.

~ Marty Rubin

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

~ Kahlil Gibran

Let your heart be as big as it can possibly be.

~ Swami Chetanananda

Shifting perspective(s) and being proactive are essential to your our life paths, progress and possibilities: Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked - nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touch

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn’t mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.

~ Max Barry

You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us. Caring is not synonymous with crazy. Expressing to someone how special they are to you will make you vulnerable. There is no denying that. However, that is nothing to be ashamed of. There is something breathtakingly beautiful in the moments of smaller magic that occur when you strip down and are honest with those who are important to you. Let that girl know that she inspires you. Tell your mother you love her in front of your friends. Express, express, express. Open yourself up, do not harden yourself to the world, and be bold in who, and how you love. There is courage in that.

~ Bianca Sparacino

Her life is lived through the masterpiece of art, that she cannot draw.

~ Nikki Rowe

Curiosity – if not desire, if not plain kindness – might have led him to greater zeal.

~ Geraldine Brooks

Reality is a complex phenomenon, filled with dimensions, not the least of which are two that Christians affirm and understand: the physical and the spiritual. We are invited by Cervantes to enter into Don Quixote's imaginary world and reflect on these players. We are to ignore no points of view: neither the idealism of Don Quixote nor the realism/literalism of Sancho Panza. The point that comes across is this: we must not have a reductionist attitude toward reality.

~ Rt Llizo

I read things that male relationship experts write about women and I read things that female relationship experts write about men, then I feel a true sadness in my heart. Why can’t there be a simple, pure, direct openness? Why can’t there be a simple, real, open trust? The truth is that male or female, gay or straight— we are all people— we have all been broken and put back together in so many different ways... it’s really just about learning how to recognize the sound of the other one's cracks. And that’s what it’s really about, just that.

~ C. Joybell C.

Then I wondered why on earth would anyone ever stand in the world as if standing in the cornucopic middle of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon but inside a tiny white-painted rectangle about the size of a single space in a car park, refusing to come out of it, and all around her or him the whole world, beautiful, various, waiting?

~ Ali Smith

Sometimes, the only way to evolve is to open ourselves fully.

~ Kamal Ravikant

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be pat

~ Hilary Mantel

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

~ H.w. Brands

Although the author dealt some of John Bunyan's conclusions in spiritualizing the details of Solomon's Temple, he attributes to Bunyan a consecrated ingenuity.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it's letting in loved ones that are reaching out, when light will begin to shine.

~ Anthony Liccione

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.

~ Tony Schwartz

The mind delights in making connections.

~ Nicholas Boothman

To learn new things one has to be open and vulnerable..

~ Jayesh Varma

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Teaching is the art of serendipity. Each of us has the experience of finding out that something we intended as only the most casual of remarks, or the stray example, changes the way some students thought to the point of changing their lives.

~ Gregory C. Carlson

i don't think college is something you should tough out.

~ Kevin Roose

I know you exist not just because your eyes flyand give light to things like an open window

~ Pablo Neruda

Sometimes believing is as simple as choosing to do so.

~ Osman Welela

Trust and condemnation work hand in hand for both work on the concept of experience, of knowing it, observing it, realizing it, understanding it and finally accepting it in either of the two categories for the root remains the same 'Expectation'. Expectation leads one to think that 'I would achieve something if trust is there' and when the expectation is not achieved the process of condemning begins. Imagine a situation where the basis of doing something is not expectation but remains mystical in nature. This is a state of liberation from the most difficult process as without Expectation, Trust is absent and Condemnation ceases to exist. This is a pure state for it helps one to unravel the human nature and the neutral mindest, openness emerges leading one to grow more and more within.

~ Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

from CHAOS?Trust the imagination. Peace is knowing without need for detailed explanation. Joy is openness to possibility. Sing your humming heart free from the heat of all creation. Swim into cool whirling coloured pools. Sleep on rock of consciousness.

~ Jay Woodman

If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.

~ Lynne Olson

You can't build a wall round a village.The sun and the windwill always find their way in.

~ Igor Goldkind

And then Jonah heard God’s voice. “Jonah, do you know what the difference is between you and the trees?” He was confident it was God because God usually asked questions but gave no answers. Jonah didn’t need a divine answer to this question, he knew it. “Yes,” he said. “The difference between me and the trees is that the trees let go of their leaves. I keep holding onto mine. The trees make room for new life. I don’t.

~ David W. Jones

Life is something that really cannot be explained. It got to be experienced! For experiencing life to its fullest an attitudes of openness, gratefulness, happiness, flexibility are required. But most of all 'being in love' is crucial to live life to its fullest potential.

~ Vishwas Chavan

It's amazing how willingly one can tell to a new face, and how restrained one may be from telling a familiar one.

~ Lauren Lola

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

~ Harold Bloom

I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.

~ Aspen Baker

[P]eople think of compassion as, like, kindness. The image comes to mind of some nice New Age guy bending to something with a look on his face like he’s about to cry. And I don’t think that’s it. I think of it more as a quality of openness that comes with being in a state of unusual attentiveness.

~ George Saunders

Why don't these translation books just include general phrases that could be applied in a variety of situations like, Say nothing unless it's in English?

~ Joe Cawley

How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history?

~ Bruce Poon Tip

A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought and felt about things. He liked that about her. He hated people who reeled off their thoughts and feelings to you, who took it for granted that you wanted to know all their mechanism. Reserve was always more interesting.

~ Agatha Christie

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

~ Randy Alcorn

Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.

~ Bryant Mcgill