Quotes About Openness

I don't think you should run through life with a real erect penis. But you should approach each book - you should approach life - with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.

You should approach each book—you should approach life—with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing. —

I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child's views should be and be open to hear the conflicting emotions and thoughts their child often experiences.

When you love someone... truly love them, friend or lover, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt—you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it's crippling—like having your heart carved out. It leaves you naked and exposed

It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

I am open to squeezing in whatever I can in this wonderful life. Instead of asking, "Is that all there is?" I seem, lately, to be always saying, "Wow!"

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.

Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been a very, very open book.

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just naturally accept whatever comes into life.

Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

Life doesn't need to be justified or judged.

You don't get to see all my family drama, you don't get in my relationships, and you don't get to live inside my personal life. But if you don't pick at me, I'm pretty open to just let you in.

Honestly, the most vulnerable part of my life is probably just honest expression, as cliché as that might sound.

Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.

How about we just see where life takes us for awhile?

I was brought up to believe you should always live the most interesting life you can.

Look, a lot of people don't think that the way that I live my life is a real thing, that it exists, that having a broad spectrum of sexual orientation is even possible.

Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.

There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world.

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.