Quotes About Openness

Stay open for how God is going to do it. Don't put Him in a box and limit Him. Trust Him to do it His way. If we're set in how we want it to happen, we can miss the new thing.

Just because it happened one way doesn't mean it's always going to happen that way. Stay open for change. Be willing to accept the new thing God is doing.

No matter what the discussion is about

Certainty is a sign of inferior intellect.

It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.

Just as we are rescuing the sex drive from our subconscious and from shame, so we need to take the intoxication drive out into the open where it can breathe.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no

If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible.

Life can't give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms.

I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That's why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

It's cool to be kind. It's cool to be weird. It's cool to be honest and to be secure with yourself.

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.

I've always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it's in daily life or in art.

Have I allowed my personal human life to become a 'Bethlehem' for the Son of God?

Make space in your life for the inevitable arrival of what you want.

Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?