Quotes About Openness

Enlightenment's motto, he proclaimed, is "Dare to understand!" and its foundational demand is freedom of thought and speech.

In 18th-century England this cronyism gave way to open economies in which anyone could sell anything to anyone, and their transactions were protected by the rule of law, property rights, enforceable contracts, and institutions like banks, corporations, and government agencies that run by fiduciary duties rather than personal connections.

Una civilización optimista está abierta a la innovación y no la teme, y se basa en las tradiciones de la crítica.

The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people are capable of reason, and that a community of people who choose to perfect this faculty and to exercise it openly and fairly can collectively reason their way to sounder conclusions in the long run.

No more holding back. Be reckless. Tell your Love to everybody.

The Soul should always stand ajar.

If you love somebody, tell them.

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

If you can't smell the fragrance don't come into the garden of Love. if you are unwilling to undress don't enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are, don't come our way

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.

The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.

Fill your heart with as much love as you can, and don't hold it in.

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

If you are open with someone, he will be open with you. If you want love from someone, give your love to him. If you want kind and sympathetic behavior from someone, be kind and sympathetic to him.

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

When you open your heart with a quiet mind love rushes in.

Hospitality should have no other nature than love.

The only way to live free, the only way to live your life as an offering of love, is to feel everything fully and live open.

Sometimes, the most courageous act a human can do is to let somebody love them

Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

I'm friends with everybody. I love everybody. I trust everybody because they don't give me a reason not to.