Quotes About Openness

When you start hiding things away, that's when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Sunlight is better than secrecy when it comes to making laws.

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.

It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive.

And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and motionless moment when our future steps into us is so much closer to life than that other loud and accidental point of time when it happens to us as if from outside. The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own...

The brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.

Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. No feeling is final.

Only those are in the right who keep an open door for both good and ill, so that each may come but also leave according to its needs. (Letters on Life)

This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.

But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive and will himself draw exhaustively from his own existence.

The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadness, the deeper and more unerringly the new will penetrate into us, the better we shall acquire it, the more it will be our fate, and then one day in the future it 'takes place' we shall feel related and close to it in our inmost hearts. And that is necessary.

But only someone who is ready for anything and rules nothing out, not even the most enigmatic things, will experience the relationship with another as a living thing and will himself live his own existence to the full.

solo quien está dispuesto a todo, quien no excluye ninguna experiencia, incluso la más incomprensible, vivirá la relación con otra persona como algo vivo y él mismo sondeará las profundidades de su propio ser.

Your task is to love what you don't understand.

Do not observe yourself too much. Do not draw too hasty conclusions from what happens to you; just let it happen.

And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me, life is right in every case.

Do not observe yourself too much. Do not draw too hasty conclusions from what happens to you; let it simply happen to you.

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Children are all foreigners.