Quotes About Openness

The treasures of your life will present themselves to you only if you really are open to them.

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.

It's always better to be real.

I'm a really sensitive person. I cry if I miss a cab. I've always worn my emotions on my sleeve. I think it makes life so much better when you can talk about anything.

My Open Hearts Family celebrates not only the traditional family but also extended families that we create from the people we open our hearts to as we journey through life.

A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji)

An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your canons of beauty in some sort of frame or glass case or tradition.

My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

Life is so short - if you feel something for someone, tell them.

Let yourself be open and life will be easier.

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do

When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.

People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds.

I wear my heart on my sleeve and live my life as openly and honestly as I can.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.