Quotes About Openness

So what can we learn from their watery ends? Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living, a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact. Regardless of whether we kiss or we wound, still we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more, since it beats staying dry, but so lonely on shore. So we make ourselves open, while knowing full well it's essentially saying, please, come pierce my shell.

It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

Candor is key—being willing to say what no one else is willing to say.

It's much more comfortable to cling to your bigotry than it is to admit you've been wrong to feel it in the first place

Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the bast bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way and lead you once more in to the paths of the unclean

Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the past bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way and lead you once more in to the paths of the unclean

That's how the universe worked at times: little things - the tiniest things - could catapult you toward a good life, but you had to be open and you had to be paying attention. Love wasn't purely destined, it relied on hiccups of fate - Aimee Mann, someone else's trip to Peru, a black dog.

We don't always have to judge difference or categorize it or criminalize it. We don't have to take it personally. We can also just let it be.

Novels are what I know, and the novel door in my personality is always open.

Don't let your mind set limits that aren't really there.

Sometimes it is when we stop trying to understand or interrogate apparently 'absurd' phenomena - like the category of the 'new' in art- that we become more open to them.

Together we entered this new space that now opened up between people, a connection with no precise beginning or end, that was always potentially open, and my mother was one of the first people I knew to understand this and exploit it fully.

When you're hurt, you feel stupid because you think you should have seen it coming. But if we knew everything that was going to happen to us we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. All I'm saying is, open your mind and your heart to the possibilities.

SISTER TAYLOR Brother Mayor, I ain't one of these folks dat bite my tongue and bust my gall—Whuts inside got to come out!

Every time I play with a new musician I absorb something, even if it's someone you don't like!

'Acceptance' is always a good word.

I don't want to hide who I am and want to be accepted fully for all that I am.

It's great that now people can be accepted and the LGBT community can open up and share with the people where they come from.

I believe that society needs to be more open and accepting of things that are seen as 'different.'

It's a common issue that you see out there, where some families aren't as accepting of what people choose to be in their life.

L.A. is the most accepting city I've ever been in.

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

The important thing is not to know where you are going, to be open to accidents. That's what keeps it fun.

The best thing about working with kids is that they are so open and honest that you sort of know where they stand and can act accordingly.