Quotes About Openness

Conservatism is not an attractive trait.

If one keeps one's eyes open, it is possible to see things in many different ways.

Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.

God gives, but man must open his hand.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

Power – any form of power – is acceptable only if it's transparent and clean, if it's exercised in a way that is equal for everybody.

The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things, and see there might be another way to look at it that you have not been shown.

Faith is two empty hands held open to receive the Lord Jesus Christ.

Gilda's book ends with her acceptance of what I had called, in working with her, "delicious ambiguity," the freedom that comes with simply not knowing the outcome of every happening or happenstance.

Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.

wherever you sit, in whatever blend of familiar and strange, it always pays to stop and ask yourself a simple question that the bankers on the Riviera were not asking: If I was to arrive in this culture, as a total stranger, or as a Martian or child, what might I see?

Tunnel vision is deadly. We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision.

He is that sort of person—the kind who appears to have no boundaries at first, who you have to get to know incredibly well to understand that his guileless openness is in part a defense to protect the deeper, more closely guarded things about which he is almost pathologically private.

When you feel yourself resisting differences, lean into them, instead, and have fun with what happens.

Often, the key to getting what we need is simply to let it in.

Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it.

Love is possible only when you drop all ideas and beliefs and meet another just as he or she is showing up in the moment, fresh and new.

That judgments close hearts should be pretty obvious. Judgments come from a closed heart, so naturally they also cause others to close their hearts. Judgments are a perfect example of an internal reality, or climate, determining one's external reality. When you openly judge others, you will be judged in return, as predictably as the night follows the day.

No one else but you can actually make you feel love or feel loved. That is solely up to you. Love is an experience that happens within you. It is an experience of your heart being open. If your heart is open, you won't need love from another person. It's only when your heart is closed that you feel a need for love from another.

love is allowing: You allow the person to be exactly the way he or she is without any reservations or desires for anything to be different than it is.

To have no particular aim was to open grand possibilities...

Lo maravilloso de un bebé es que es un intelectual puro. Aprende cualquier cosa con total imparcialidad, sin ningún prejuicio.

whenever we're offered love, we should accept it. Wherever we encounter tenderness, we should embrace it.