Quotes About Openness

It is true, of course, that you never know. A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't..

Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps.

You do not make yourself love... You allow love to enter you.

You allow love to enter you. But to do this you must position your mind by remembering what it felt like and try to feel it again.

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.

There is a reciprocal relationship between truth about the past and justice in the present. When we achieve justice in the present, remedying some past event or practice, then we can face it and talk about it more openly, precisely because we have made it right. It has become a success story.

Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. —ANATOLE FRANCE

If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents. ~ African Proverb

It doesn't do anyone any good to live one life and hide another.

In decreeing the Decalogue, moreover, YHWH bypasses Moses to address the people as a whole, communicating his will to them in quasi-democratic openness, without the need for any royal or prophetic intermediary. That is not only without precedent in the history of religion; it is also unparalleled in the Hebrew Bible. God's proclamation of the Decalogue accordingly lies at the heart of the theme of revelation.

Be open, be straight for a lifetime relationship.

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

I ask only what I want to be told.

Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what to do; without any approach to coarseness, however, or any want of good humour. Anne gave her credit, indeed, for feelings of great consideration towards herself, in all that related to Kellynch; and it pleased her.

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

Perhaps, he would now agree that you should sometimes let people persude you not to do things.

We have neither of us any thing to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing.

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.