Quotes About Openness

I don't worry about being a woman alone out there. My advice to people is to smile a lot, talk to strangers, accept all invitations and eat everything you're offered.

I'm a great believer in life to saying yes and not saying no, and hopefully making people smile and just having fun in life.

You have to smile, if you expect anybody to smile back.

Skin heads are doing an awful job of promoting racism. You guys need to loosen up, and for god's sake would it kill you to smile.

So, he, uhm, all ac/ac, or a little ac/dc?" she asked, blushing, and Chase's grin about swallowed his face."He claims to be ac/dc, " he said, watching her face light up completely.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

The only rule is that there are no rules.

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

Real dialogue isn't about talking to people who believe the same things as you.

The main point about civility is...the ability to interact with strangers without holding their strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renounce some or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place.

My policy is to have no policy.

A healthy person can accept criticism.

Aprendi que viajar ainda é a melhor forma de alterar a vida, mudar as ideias e abraçar a inspiração, mas devemos estar de olhos bem abertos e ansiosos por agarrá-la, ou é um desperdício.

Do Italians tell you everything they feel without censor?

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.

Acquaintance softens prejudices.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

An important first step in overcoming defensiveness around art is to become more open about the strangeness that we feel in certain contexts.

Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with.

Als we ons met de instelling van de reiziger [met ontvankelijkheid als voornaamste kenmerk] door onze eigen omgeving bewogen, zou deze wellicht niet minder interessant blijken dan de hoge bergpassen en de oerwouden vol vlinders in Humboldts Zuid-Amerika.

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