Quotes About Openness

The greatest gift and expression of love is the gesture of open arms - let come what comes - not because you don't care, or because you hope to steel yourself against pain, but because you care so much that you are helpless to do anything else.

But the fullness of life escapes us either way, whether we are holding on or pushing away, I realize now, at this late hour. For at the heart of love is openness. An unfettered openness of heart and spirit, it seems to me, is what intimacy—with another and with all life—really means. That openness is what I now believe true detachment to be.

Opportunities are enhanced not by closing things down, but by opening things up. It is by allowing autonomous institutions to grow, by protecting the space in which they flourish, and

Originality requires learning, hard work, the mastery of a medium and – most of all – the refined sensibility and openness to experience that have suffering and solitude as their normal cost.

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers — all depending on what you are looking for. But if you think there's only one right answer, then you'll stop looking as soon as you find one.

I know no gods, but if any care to be with us, I welcome them.

No sense in looking for our differences when I had just met him.

The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.

those who travel the world hoping to get "blinded by the light" are often blind to the light that's all around them.

finding a singular travel experience doesn't require heroism so much as a simple change of mind-set. The reason so many travelers become frustrated while visiting world-famous destinations is that they are still playing by the rules of home, which "reward" you for following set routines and protocols.

People did not always realize how observant he was. "His eyes retire inward . . . and have nothing of fire or animation or openness in their expression," said Edward Thornton, a young British diplomat, who added that Washington "possesses the two great requisites of a statesman, the faculty of concealing his own sentiments, and of discovering those of other men.

Hamilton always expressed himself frankly, no matter what the consequences.

With a country boy's love of open spaces, he hated anything confined or cluttered

We need to live our experience as it is and with our eyes open. The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

I'm wide open to ideas, Agent

I wanted miles to travel and absolutely no idea where I was going.

Godly teachers encourage questions; those who demand unthinking agreement have something to hide.

I feel like a child. But I learn a little something every day. It's like a whole new way of living. It's a willingness to give up control. To make a commitment and have faith it'll work out.

Words on a page were seductive, free, inviting everyone, without distinction.

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Jesus didn't care about a "holy table" as the religious establishment defined "holy." For Jesus a holy table was one that was open to anyone, a table where all God's children were present.

been present as Lester's talks unfolded, so that you can be as open as possible to his deepest message. Lester came to this unique communication style for several reasons. His realization came quickly and

Learn to say I don't know when you really DON'T know.