Quotes About Openness

Stand fully in the now moment with gratitude, enthusiasm, openness, and readiness to respond to Life as it greets you.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

If you try too carefully to plan your life, the danger is that you will succeed-succeed in narrowing your options, closing off avenues of adventure that cannot now be imagined.

Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open.

I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

If there is one thing I've learned in my short life, it's this: Never repress anything.

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.

Be available for life to happen.

You can't make God move in your life, but you can make room for God to move in your life.

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.

Never say "never" about anything, because if you do, life has a way of humbling you.

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

The warrior's approach is to say 'yes' to life: 'yes' to it all.