Quotes About Openness

Be infinitely flexible and constantly amazed.

I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life.

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Life cannot be mastered by a method but needs to be met with an attitude of openness and discovery

Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.

It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Strange how, after deciding to take life as one finds it, life comes fawning to one's hand.

Unfelt feelings don't cease to exist; they stay bottled up in our minds and our bodies. They dissipate when given expression. A heart can break only if it is closed—if it remains open there is nothing to break.

True safety was not in having armor. It was in vulnerability.

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

He loves to communicate, so if you let him know it's safe to be honest, he will tell you what he really thinks and feels.

A]fter all, the position of a reader in a book is very like that occupied by angels in the world, when angels still had any credibility. Yours is, like theirs, a hovering, gravely attentive presence, observing everything, from whom nothing is concealed, for angels are very bright mirrors. Hearts and minds are as open as the landscape to their view, as to yours; like them you are in the fabled world invisible.

Be brave and be patient. Have faith in yourself; trust in the significance of your life and the purpose of your passion. You are strong enough to sit in the space between spaces and allow divine inspiration to shed some light. When you put positive energy and productive effort into the world it will come back to you. Occasionally in ways you might not immediately understand and on a time frame you didn't expect. Look. Listen. Learn. Stay open. Your destiny is awaiting you.

No one ever died from an open mind.

The trustworthiness of science comes not from certainty, but from its very openness about its uncertainty, always calling into question what we currently understand and being prepared to replace that knowledge with a deeper understanding if something better comes along. In other walks of life, this attitude might be regarded as fickle. But not in science. Scientific progress depends on scientists' unwavering commitment to the qualities of honesty and doubt.

The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.