Quotes About Openness

It's better to have no secrets. Lies are always harder to manage than the truth.

The windows were wide open,

She traversed the spectrum of human emotion, and found herself to be flawed, but trusted God to accept all of her. Her vulnerability and openness led to her empowerment.

I was always a little disturbed by him because I'd never heard him tell a lie. That was horrifying to me, like living in a house with every door and window wide open all day long.

What nobody knew about the docile girl from Osogbo was that her heart was too heavy, and that almost from birth she had felt its weight, a gravitational pull that invited her to her grave. Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.

Instead of avoiding attention they invited it

When you have become willing to hide nothing, you will not only be willing to enter into communion but will also understand peace and joy.

To widen our inner circle and include others who are not like us, we must take a few risks, open our hearts and minds, change our mindset, and be willing to expand our thinking.

Disappointment is in fact a kind of grief—a reaction to the loss of something you desired. If you honor and gently hold the disappointment inside you, and at the same time keep yourself open to the wanting behind the disappointment, you'll be able to weather your disappointments and keep going. Another

Executive coach Alan Allard told me, "Listening shows respect, even if you don't agree with what the person is saying.

It expresses an inveterate hopefulness and openness toward the future that has often been hard to sustain in the three decades since its publication but which characterizes Lefebvre's philosophically induced intellectual and political optimism.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc." -Henri Matisse, artist (31 Dec 1869-1954)

Only learn with reservations. An entire life is not enough to unlearn what you naively, submissively, have allowed to be placed in your head---innocent one---without imagiging the consequences.

Books are boring to read. You can't move around in them as you wish. You are asked to follow. The trail is traced, one way.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

You ought to live in such a way that you would be perfectly happy to have everything that you do known. And if you don't do that, maybe you'd better change a little bit.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

People's hearts are often opened when they speak freely.

sometimes, if you are to make the right decisions, you have to accept that you might be wrong.