Quotes About Openness

It was almost reckless how vulnerable she allowed herself to be.

if you travel with an open mind and a good heart, and remain respectful of the country you're in, then you should be fine.

People are the same except for the books they read and the people they meet

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act..It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.

While most streams of Buddhism take a contemplative stance on passion, pleasure, and pain, Sufism encourages us to be open to our passions - to dive into the sea, to become at one with the beauty and power of the waves.

Some of the true signs of being unstuck are friendliness, lightheartedness, receptivity, and joy. It's a friendliness born of aliveness, awe, and fascination. You become able to look kindly into the eyes of others without fear because there's nothing in the way—no shame, judgments, secrets, or agitation. Authentic warmth and friendliness are hallmarks of people who are free in their hearts and in their lives.

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.

Fludity and capacity are business skills - rigidity and limitation are not!

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

We couldn't know, but we were open to knowing. As close as we'd been when we were together, we were closer in our unraveling, telling each other everything at last, words that seemed to us might never have been spoken between two human beings before, so deep we went, saying everything that was beautiful and ugly and true.

She hadn't held back a thing, not a single lick of her love.

Acceptance asks only that you embrace what's true.

Futurist James Ogilvy simply denounced managing through goal setting as "bunk." Instead, he recommends that: Organizations should tread near the edge of the future, making it up as they go along, with as much sensitivity, awareness, knowledge, compassion, feeling, and beauty as they can muster.139

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.

Abre o teu coração ou eu arrombo a janela

Accept all kinds of people, even those that use mild sauce.

We can seek, we can find, if we open our minds.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.

I drink wine because I don't like to keep things bottled up.

Who would regard all things complacently must wink at a great many.

Justices continue to think and can change. I am ever hopeful that if the court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be open tomorrow.