Quotes About Openness

I actually feel something in my chest open, a feeling so intense, it's like my heart's about to burst. And I just let it. I just let it out.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it. When you travel, you put yourself out there. It's not always great. Sometimes it's terrible. But other times ... [...] It's not so bad.

I battle with invisible waves and imaginary vortexes and demons that are all too real and of my own making. I actually feel something in my chest open, a feeling so intense, it's like my heart's about to burst. And I just let it. I just let it out.

Tal vez accidente no es la palabra correcta después de todo. Tal vez milagro lo es. O tal vez no es un milagro. Tal vez es solo vida. Cuando te abres a ella. Cuando te pones en su camino. Cuando dices que sí.

Because you don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not.

You don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not.

Or maybe it's not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes. How can I come this far and not tell him - he, who would understand it best - that by giving my that flyer, by inviting me to skip Hamlet, he helped me realize that it's not to be that matters, but how to be?

Maybe accident isn't the right word at all. Maybe miracle is. Or maybe it's not a miracle, Maybe this is just life. When you open youself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes.

There are so many ways to live, to define what living means for you and you alone. We are so narrow in our thinking, and once you understand that, once you decide to not abide by these artificial constraints, anything is possible and you are so liberated

Acho que as coisas estão sempre a acontecer, mas que a pessoa tem de se pôr a jeito para não lhe passarem ao lado.

There's nothing wrong. You are just happy because you met people who see the world differently.

Studying culture without experiencing culture shock is like practicing swimming without experiencing water.

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.

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

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

While the churchless continue to show some openness to high-touch, relational connections—pastoral home visits (27 percent), a phone call from a church (24 percent), a survey conducted with them about their interests (21 percent)—they are also increasingly resistant to other forms of outreach.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

In the lives of nations the really worthwhile things cannot and will not be hidden.

Global warming is a religion in the sense that it's a series of propositions that can't be refuted. It's very ironic that the global warming alarmists say, "We are the real defenders of science," and then they adopt the absolute reverse of the scientific attitude, which is openness to evidence. You cannot refute what they say.