Quotes About Openness

I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.

When you stop being surprised, you've stopped living.

Psychological flexibility is the ability to feel and think with openness, to attend voluntarily to your experience of the present moment, and to move your life in directions that are important to you, building habits that allow you to live life in accordance with your values and aspirations. It's about learning not to turn away from what is painful, instead turning toward your suffering in order to live a life full of meaning and purpose.

ACT uses acceptance and mindfulness processes and commitment and behavioral activation processes to produce psychological flexibility. It seeks to bring human language and cognition under better contextual control so as to overcome the repertoire-narrowing effects of an excessive reliance on a problem-solving mode of mind as well as to promote a more open, centered, and engaged approach to living.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. —Alice Walker

If you tell me that the sky is red, I will look up.

I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness.

I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

I didn't know a liberal from a conservative. I had a clean slate.

I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

With me, everybody I meet always has a clean slate.

I am a clean slate and am willing to learn and explore every possible genre that comes my way.

I am fine, I do not close any doors, I am open to whatever comes but it does not stop me sleeping.

I wear my heart on my sleeve and I am known for getting a little bit emotional at times.

Some people wear their heart on their sleeve; I do that in more ways than one.

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have no poker face.

I'm not very diplomatic and wear my heart on my sleeve.

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I tell you exactly how I feel.

I wear my musical heart on my sleeve and show all my influences off. I'm happy for someone to point out that my song sounds like someone else's.

I think the problem is I really wear my heart on my sleeve, so when I like someone I tell them how it is.

I always wear my heart on my sleeve.

I wear my Judaism on my sleeve - and my face for that matter.