Quotes About Openness

The extraverted are right, however, when they say that "a stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.

The idea of a persona goes against North American culture's admiration of openness and authenticity. Europeans have a far better grasp of the value of not saying everything that one is thinking. Yet

A relationship] takes time and deeds, and this involves trust, it involves making ourselves naked, to become sitting ducks for each other.

One thing life taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. They will gravitate as automatically as the needle to the north. Somehow, it is unnecessary, in any cold-blooded sense, to sit down and put your head in your hands and plan them. All you need to do is to be curious, receptive, eager for experience. And there's one strange thing: when you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

There is no human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

If we can keep that flexibility of mind, that hospitality toward new ideas, we will be able to welcome the new flow of thought from wherever it comes, not resisting it; weighing and evaluating and exploring the strange new concepts that confront us at every turn. We cannot shut the windows and pull down the shades; we cannot say, "I have learned all I need to know; my opinions are fixed on everything. I refuse to change or to consider these new things." Not today. Not any more.

We cannot shut the windows and pull down the shades; we cannot say, "I have learned all I need to know; my opinions are fixed on everything. I refuse to change or to consider these new things." Not today. Not any more.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

It was marvelous to cross borders, to let oneself go within other cultures, discover the provisional nature of what I had taken for absolute.

I am clean I am true I am playing with my cards on the table.

Relearn astonishment.

To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.

Somos como un edificio y el hombre dedica al amor una habitación, lo demás es para el bricolaje, para los niños, para los amigos, para el trabajo...la mujer tumba todos los muros y deja que el amor lo inunde todo.

A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.

A full heart has room for everything and empty heart has room for nothing. Who understands?

As a person's mind gets opened, his friendship circle gets shortened in the same proportion.

One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.

People have been so attuned mentally to believe in the power of key that the majority of them even think that they need actually a key to unlock own head to find an open mind.

The challenge is not finding and/or telling the truth , but finding a person who on telling the truth is willing to listen and/or accept it.

The people who have closed mind do find NO SENSE in the open heart communication/conversation done by a person.

The social networking sites ought to have made the world open and transparent, not blatant of shamelessness as is evident from many people's unbridled selfishness.