Quotes About Openness

Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and, today, courage is more synonymous with being heroic.

I woke up with one of the worst vulnerability hangovers of my life. You know that feeling when you wake up and everything feels fine until the memory of laying yourself open washes over you and you want to hide under the covers? What did I do?

Vulnerability is the core of all emotions and feelings. To feel is to be vulnerable.

vulnerability.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. When

Humility is openness to new learning combined with a balanced and accurate assessment of our contributions, including our strengths, imperfections, and opportunities for growth.

The clearer and more respected the boundaries, the higher the level of empathy and compassion for others. Fewer clear boundaries, less openness. It's hard to stay kind-hearted when you feel people are taking advantage of you or threatening you.

Dare to Lead: I'm here to get it right, not to be right.

Adam is a number one New York Times bestselling writer, and his latest book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know, might be my new favorite.

I'm brave enough to listen." I actually put it on repeat: "I'm brave enough to listen.

We have to be able to talk about how we feel, what we need and desire, and we have to able to listen with an open heart and an open mind. There is no intimacy without vulnerability.

know that asking for what we need and talking openly about our expectations is vulnerable.

Communicating our expectations is brave and vulnerable.

If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, I am not interested in or open to your feedback.

We need braver readers and more courageous cultures.

Vulnerability is not winning or losing. It's having the courage to show up when you can't control the outcome.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.

The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.

Insecurity not only paralyzes our relationship with the living God but has a devastating effect on interpersonal relationships. It is the starting point of all social estrangement. It breaks down openness, which is the bridge to the existential world of the other. It undermines real communication and causes a kind of rupture in the evolution of authentic personality.

The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there.

Pray as you can; don't pray as you can't.

To open yourself to another person, to stop lying about your loneliness and your fears, to be honest about your affections, and to tell others how much they mean to you—this openness is the triumph of the child over the pharisee and a sign of the dynamic presence of the Holy Spirit. "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom" (2 Corinthians 3:17).