Quotes About Openness

The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.

You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.

My child, you should practice so that your mind is like the earth. Whether people put on the earth fragrant oils, good-tasting food, excrement, or urine, the earth receives them all without discrimination.

Open all the doors. Don't commit yourself to just one idea of happiness. Remove the idea of happiness that you have, and then happiness can come, this afternoon.

you should cultivate freedom, including freedom from your own concepts and ideas.

But I've always been a genius of secrecy, I thought, quite unlike Wertheimer who basically couldn't keep anything a secret, had to talk about everything, had to get everything out in the open as long as he lived. But naturally unlike most others we were lucky not to have to earn a cent because we had enough from the very beginning. Whereas

When we think, we know nothing, everything is open, nothing, so Roithamer.

We need to come out of our silos. Open the doors and come out into the air and the light. Hack through a wall and make a door if necessary. Expand our horizons. Understand that divergent viewpoints can be valid. That sympathetic viewpoints can be false. And that we need to be able to discern the difference.

A jó kapcsolatok, sok egyéb mellett Å'szinteségrÅ'l, nyíltságról, megértésrÅ'l, és demokráciáról szólnak.

Tell him everything; it is best. He will forgive you.

Don't try to impose any pattern or symmetry on this guy. Stay open and let him show you.

Siéntate ante los hechos como un niño pequeño, disponte a abandonar cualquier idea preconcebida, sigue a la naturaleza dondequiera y a cualesquiera abismos a los que te lleve, o no aprenderás nada

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

We cannot see things in perspective until we cease to hug them to our own bosom.

To cling to one partial view, one limited and conditioned opinion, and to treat this as the ultimate answer to all questions is simply to "obscure the Tao" and make oneself obdurate in error.

Každý skute?ný vztah vyžaduje ?as, jistou otevÃ…â"¢enost, zranitelnost a ochotu nechat se ovlivnit a zmÄ›nit.

Now is not the time to tolerate the religions of the world; it's time to seek them out and study them and be affected by them.

The people I feel sorry for are those who insist on continuing to do what they have always done but want the results to be different from what they have always been.

There are always options in life—and you may not have been aware of that up until now, because there often are not a lot of options in a dysfunctional family. Be open to other options and new possibilities as much as you can, and know that you can trust yourself to handle whatever comes up.

Elle faisait confiance à la vie pour lui envoyer des indices, des idées, des détails qu'elle convertirait en histoires. C'est comme ça qu'elle avait écrit son premier livre. En ouvrant grand les yeux sur le monde. En écoutant, en observant, en reniflant. C'est comme ça aussi qu'on ne vieillit pas. On vieillit quand on s'enferme, on refuse de voir, d'entendre ou de respirer. La vie et l'écriture, ça va souvent ensemble.

Ce devrait être toujours comme ça quand on aime. Sans condition. Sans juger. Sans établir des critères, des préférences.

Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open.