Quotes About Openness

Look for the exceptions to the rule--and let these rule your spirit.

Ban the words "always" and never from your vocabulary

If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.

Sometimes, even if you know the answer, you've got to let the other person take a shot. If they feel wrong all the time, they never get the chance to feel right.

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

The Open Society and Its Enemies

Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.

I have long made friends with the open sky-- Rough are its ways, but true.

At the time I vaguely knew that when anything stirs us that deeply, moves us to the point of distraction, and urgently invites us to follow, we must pack up, go, and be not afraid. Never fear the less-traveled road. Respect such mysterious calls always and take them seriously. Never ever minimize or regard them as foolishness.

I believe if something needs to be said, people should say it. Blunt doesn't stab as deep as being cut by a secret.

Let's stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is fucking omniscient.

We let the weirdness in.

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.

There was an almost frightening breadth and depth and height to the place, alive with openness and the wild energy of breeze and trees and the crying gulls and the brilliant water. Alone, a speck of human in a place big enough to swallow me, I looked about with eyes that seemed open for the first time.

Things work out better when you're straight up.

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

poet Taylor Mali—that 'changing your mind is one of the best ways of finding out whether or not you still have one'.

I try to be interested in very nearly everything. I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

When I say we do not

My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.