Quotes About Openness

That also doesn't mean that your mind should be closed to other religions. You can study any religion; you can check it out. The problem is that when you choose one particular religion, you get too extreme about its ideas and then put other religions and philosophies down. This happens because you don't know the purpose of religion, why it exists or how to practice. If you did, you'd never feel insecure about other religions.

They had such unbelievably fixed minds, fixed ideas—strong, unchangeable beliefs that there was just this one life; no understanding that the mind can exist without the body. Their thinking was unbelievably gross. People like this needed something external to break their concepts and enable them to see things more deeply.

The worst of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed. As water containing stony particles encrusts with them the ferns and mosses it drops on, so the human breast hardens under ingratitude, in proportion to its openness, and aptitude to receive impressions.

I'm not gay," said Raphael. "I'm not straight. I'm not interested." "Your sexuality is 'not interested'?" Alec asked curiously. Raphael said, "That's right.

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

arms wide and said, 'That's a question

Making oneself vulnerable is the ultimate in bravery.

The word "receive" means "to accept.

I feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect.

I mean you can't change his mind. You can't change anybody's mind. No matter what you say to them. The sooner you figure that out, the happier your life will be." "But

It depends how important it is to them to see things differently.

First I think, how weird is this? Sitting in the park holding hands with a complete stranger. Then I decided that there are a lot of weird things in the word, and this is not the very worst of them.

feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect.

Ruth said, "Ham told me once that the problem with people is that we forget that something unexpected can happen at any time.

the problem with people is that we forget that something unexpected can happen at any time.

As long as you think you know everything, nothing changes.

You never know. In a world like this, you never know what's possible. So I figure, don't say it's possible, because you don't know. But, then again, don't say it's not possible. Because you don't know that, either.

No such thing as too truthful," I said.

How can it be good to know nothing?" "It's not. But if you know nothing, it's good to know that you know nothing." "Oh," Grace said. "Yeah, I guess." "Because as long as you think you know everything, nothing changes.

Grown-ups have it over you in sheer day-to-day life experience. I'll be the first to admit that we don't know everything, but you at least have to be open to the idea that we might know a few things you don't.

It's a trust thing. When people trust me, I'd just about die before I let them down. You can tell me anything.

You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.

love may unclose itself between any number of seemingly upside-down and turned-around folk.

Al kept it coming and nobody asked how and his only rule was: share. Be warm, be innocent, open your everything, speak easy. Share