Quotes About Openness

Life. There it was. In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life, and those of us who'd been lucky enough to survive opened our arms wide and embraced it.

When Dad & I used to tell each other to try a little tenderness we meant calm down, be soft, stop having to be right, give a person the benefit of the doubt for a change.

But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.

if i were a book i would be so open

Don't think or judge,' I said. 'Just listen.

Don't think, or judge. Just listen

Maybe we could call me a … Fluid!" "Ooooh, that's way better than Fishie

Don't make a wall of glass between your play and the people watching. Don't forget they were once children, who enjoyed being read to, or sung to sleep.

Mimi didn't care about secrecy. She led a proclaimed life, and once she got talking she held back nothing.

Conflict is the essential core of a free and open society. If one were to project the democratic way of life in the form of a musical score, its major theme would be the harmony of dissonance.

There is no truer, warmer pleasure in this world than to behold a great soul opening up towards oneself.

Não há alegria mais verdadeira e cálida nesse mundo do que ver uma grande alma que se abre inteira para nós.

einen offenen, treuherzigen Menschen.

Una parola schietta è terribile, quando d'improvviso rivela ciò che il cuore da tanto si permette.

If orthodoxy (which literally means "right teaching") proclaims a single, authorized set of answers, we celebrate instead the open mind. We trust that our own thoughts and experiences can be as illuminating as the thoughts and experiences of those who came before us. Not that our answers will therefore be superior.

Ours is a non-creedal church—not because we have no beliefs, but because we will not be restrained in our beliefs.

Belief is the enemy.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. { Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams , November 13 1816 }

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." —George Bernard Shaw

Humility is a reflection of vulnerability; it is the self giving itself permission to say, "I don't know everything.

When we let go of insisting that we are who we think we are and that the world should give us exactly and only what we want, all things shine forth.

Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces that create and uphold life.