Quotes About Openness

There's no snobbery in me.

We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music.

At least when it comes to food, there's no snobbery in Singapore.

Keep your mind open about what you want to do and be true to yourself. So many people are governed by what's 'in' or copy something that someone else has done.

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

I learned a lot of empathy and openness from my parents. I know so many people who don't have that experience.

I'm having so much fun, I'm just going to go where it takes me.

We spend so much time closing ourselves to protect from scary things that we forget that when we do open to the world, inspiration can flow.

A noble heart should not belie its thoughts; it wants to reveal itself even to its inmost depths. There everything is good, at least everything is human.

I hail and caress truth in what quarter soever I find it, and cheerfully surrender myself, and open my conquered arms as far off as I can discover it; and, provided it be not too imperiously, take a pleasure in being reproved, and accommodate myself to my accusers, very often more by reason of civility than amendment, loving to gratify and nourish the liberty of admonition by my facility of submitting to it, and this even at my own expense.

reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude. Of

Enfermé dans le navire, d'où on n'échappe pas, le fou est confié à la rivière aux mille bras, à la mer aux mille chemins, à cette grande incertitude extérieure à tout. Il est prisonnier au milieu de la plus libre, de la plus ouverte des routes : solidement enchaîné à l'infini carrefour. Il est le Passager par excellence, c'est-à-dire le prisonnier du Passage.

In the seminar room, Helen had lit the chalice and given a short speech about not focusing on one kind of minister—a man, a woman, a person of color, or someone within a certain age range—when the person who most needed to hear this slipped in.

It's not supposed to work that way, her brother said. Marilyn just looked at him. She didn't think he was right about that. She thought there were a lot of different ways that things could work.

You can't get lost if you have nowhere to be.

Imagine living without the fear of loving and not being loved. You are no longer afraid to be rejected, and you don't have the need to be accepted. You can say I love you with no shame or justification. You can walk in the world with your heart completely open, and not be afraid to be hurt.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do.

THE THIRD AGREEMENT Don't Make Assumptions

Without making assumptions your word becomes impeccable.

Just as we would like to be perceived without assumptions or past prejudices, we can allow their unique qualities to impress us all over again . . . expecting nothing, and accepting them as they are.

There is no worse blind man than the one who doesn't want to see. There is no worse deaf man than the one who doesn't want to hear. And there is no worse madman than the one who doesn't want to understand.

If you know where you are going, you are not learning. (p. 16)

Small minds don't grow, no matter how long you water them.

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.