Quotes About Openness

Nothing will change until people with the power really try to imagine the lives of other folks beyond their own direct experience.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.

There are] code words used today to measure the 'authenticity' of relationships or other persons. We speak of whether we can personally 'relate' to events or other persons, and whether in the relationship itself people are 'open' to one another. The first is a cover word for measuring the other in terms of a mirror of self-concern, and the second is a cover for measuring social interaction in terms of the market exchange of confession.

The threat of being overwhelmed by difficult social interactions is dealt with by fixing a self-image in advance, by making oneself a fixed object rather than an open person liable to be touched by a social situation.

Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience

Teachings come from everywhere when you open yourself to them. That's the trick of it really, to open yourself to everything and everything opens itself to you.

He that is not open to conviction, is not qualified for discussion.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

He could even be grateful in a sense that he had no particular area of interest: in avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.

Not me. Give me honesty anytime.

When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend." - Dimitri

La verdad es que cualquier cosa de la que no puedas hablar ya está fuera de control en tu vida.

Everyone knows about the problem, but no one talks about it openly.

For it is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new,unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive.

The most revolutionary thing you can do is to be yourself, to speak your truth, to open your arms to life including the pain. Passion. Find your passions. The

The most revolutionary thing you can do is to be yourself, to speak your truth, to open your arms to life including the pain. Passion. Find your passions.

And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.