Quotes About Openness

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house — do not pass by like a dream.

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

Ask me no questions, and I will tell you no lies.

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.

Where one loves, one can follow without agreeing—one can surrender oneself with eyes open.

Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as a guest.

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste.

Si tu fermes la porte à toutes les erreurs, la vérité restera dehors

Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.

It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.

you had said those things to him, you understand, you would have heard some truths in return. If you had been frank you would have elicited frankness.

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

Generosity is as much showing your vulnerability as it is your passion for something.

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.

The thing I really love about my fans is the vulnerability and openness, the crying and the hugs. They are so kind.

The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our culture because black lives exist in a state of precariousness. Mourning then bears both the vulnerability inherent in black lives and the instability regarding a future for those lives.

I don't have a problem showing vulnerability.

I have a way of opening up people and gaining their trust. I think they can see my vulnerability because I'm unafraid to admit if something doesn't quite work.

When you approach the world with such vulnerability and openness, people return that energy. It's draining, but it fills me with a purpose. I wouldn't trade it for anything.