Quotes About Openness

I don't want to have life figured out and then wonder, "What's next?" That seems scary to me.

My life has not been predictable. I never would have imagined I'd be living where I'm living, doing what I'm doing or married to an American guy. I'm interested to see what will happen next!

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.

It is far wiser to ask for a question than an answer. When you think you have all the answers, it simply means you have run out of questions.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.

Sometimes in real life, people can be a bit too unaccepting.

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody.

We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.

Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

As much as you can in your life, say yes.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

I'll let life take me where it will.

Keep thou an open door between thy child's life and thine own.

The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

As we suspend the notion of our preeminent and dominating intelligence, we might open to a universe filled with life-forms different from ourselves to whom we might be connected in ways we do not yet comprehend.

We can continue to try to make the phenomenon fit the world as we have known it, jamming it into a kind of procrustean bed of consensus reality. Or we can acknowledge that the world might be other than we have known it. Then we are free to see where our thinking leads us.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." [ Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America ; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962]

when someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart - I want to hug them for being real...