Quotes About Openness

Don't close off the possibility of new truth because you've been comfortable with an old one. Life be-gins at the end of your comfort zone.

Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!

I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have.

In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change.

We've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.

I've never gone into an interview in my life and said that we can't talk about something.

I try to be alert and available. I try to be available for life to happen to me.

... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.

It takes awareness that it's not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an improvement. It makes life richer and more interesting.

I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

It would also require a conscious effort to look at the world from unfamiliar standpoints and admit that the West has no monopoly on truth or virtue.

They speak their mind in Yorkshire.

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.

Most truth's are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

The Gospel of Matthew declares, "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." An early Chinese Daoist text, the Daodejing or Laozi, compares the perfected sage to an infant or small child, perfectly open and receptive to the world.

Intoxication is an antidote to cognitive control, a way to temporarily hamstring that opponent to creativity, cultural openness, and communal bonding.

Our dependence on culture means that our minds need to be open to others, so that we can learn from them.

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

I am as an open sky; you can fly but not land.

You're safer out in the open than you are crouching in the woodshed listening for footsteps and going crazy.