Openness Quotes

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

~ George Santayana

During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.

~ Edward Carey

I envy these people. Wide-open suffering, their messes all hanging out. Lives boiled down to raw need--a near-holiness to it. And all of us driving our cars up and down the mountain--we'll go on forever trying to fool each other.

~ Jamie Quatro

You have to be vulnerable and open to experience the new, as nothing else gonna substitute it..

~ Jayesh Varma

An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.

~ Mary Catherine Bateson

The habit of mobility had become ingrained.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.

~ David Pietrusza

The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.

~ Harold Holzer

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.

~ Tom Vanderbilt

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

~ Stephen L. Carter

It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.

~ J. Richard Singleton

Wear your heart on your sleeve. Write about what you think and feel. And share it with your friends.

~ Fennel Hudson

She remembered the intensity of her desire to undress him, to be naked with him, the way she felt like she could say whatever she wanted and be fully understood and do whatever she wanted and be totally accepted. She remembered how easy it had all been, how open and bright, like being in a whitewashed room with all the windows wide open.

~ Lisa Jewell

I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.

~ Kevin Deyoung

The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birth parents punished and banished from a place in his life.

~ Kathleen Silber

Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.

~ Jody Cantrell Dyer

Laughter is the ultimate emotion of openness. When you laugh, you release your fears, abandon your hatred and let down your guard to embrace the flow of the Universe.

~ Russell Anthony Gibbs

Openness is allowing and directing the energy of the Universe to flow through you freely, giving and taking with ease.

~ Russell Anthony Gibbs

The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life's changes but also to the Divine Light within us and others.

~ Peter Santos

Regrets are the last words you speak to your loved ones when you die and the one thing we all fear when we live. I'd rather regret the things I've done and said than regret the things I haven't done or said. It is all the experiences and people you missed out on in life that you will feel the most regretful for in the end. God will forgive you of your mistakes, but there is nothing to forgive if you have never even tried, done or said anything that made a difference in your life or others.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead

~ Alan Watts

Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are different.

~ Mary Catherine Bateson

Martin Luther was a thoroughly educated man but he wore this lightly. His sermons were littered with only examples and improving tales, drawing equally from the fables of Aesop and the follies of life he observed all around him.

~ Andrew Pettegree

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee.

~ William Grimes

As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.

~ Greg Cootsona

The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.

~ Jim Bouton

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance. Lord Acton

~ Harold Holzer

When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. That's a curious view, not uninteresting.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.

~ Philip Zaleski

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

~ Philip Zaleski

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.

~ Harold Holzer

Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary.

~ Harold Holzer

Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

~ Frank Herbert

He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

~ Frank Herbert

It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The author says resilience is the ability to move rob a preferred state to an expanded list of alternatives.

~ Andrew Zolli

Resilient systems fail gracefully. A perfect system is often most fragile.

~ Andrew Zolli

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

~ E.m. Forster