Quotes About Openness

A mon sens, dans ma façon de « voir », de « comprendre », l'image, la vision que propose ma photo, ne veut surtout rien « garder », seulement proposer un sentiment de découverte, d'approfondissement soudain, de perception de ce que j'appelle ouverture, de clarté qu'on pourrait dire intuitive.

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity.

Secret thoughts and an open countenance will take you safely the world over

Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.

You're kidding? These people live in a glass box with no option to shut the world out? That's kind of—" "Exhibitionist. Yeah. Fishbowl-like." "I was going to say vulnerable," she says softly.

Looking at a man as though he was something the horse left behind isn't the way to elicit confidences.

Until you tell me what's really on your mind, you'll stay stuck exactly where you are.

Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent. It's one thing to talk about leaving behind a restrictive mindset. It's another to stop being so restrictive.

No matter how open we as a society are about formerly private matters, the stigma around our emotional struggles remains formidable. We'll talk with almost anyone about our physical health (can anyone imagine spouses hiding their reflux medication from each other?), even our sex lives, but bring up anxiety or depression or an intractable sense of grief, and the expression on the face looking back at you will probably read, Get me out of this conversation, pronto.

Be smart. Be brave. Be vulnerable.

Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed.

It isn't complicated. You just open up and let someone in. And whatever comes after that, you face it together.

We must prepare for as many futures as possible, not merely the ones we prefer.

Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed." Araris

Life is short. Why not be familiar with all of it?

The most sophisticated people I know--inside they're all children. We never really loose a certain sense we had when we were kids.

Your mind is like a parachute, It works best open..

I like a man who wears his soul on his face.

Defensiveness shuts down honesty and keeps truth from being expressed.

need to say something like this to our spouses if there is going to be a genuine atmosphere of truth and openness: "Honey, I want to be the best spouse I can be, and I want our marriage to grow. I want you to know that if there is anything I'm doing or not doing that is bothering you, I want you to share it with me. I may not agree with everything you say, but I will validate it, and we will talk things out.

People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have seen that look on their own faces. I have noticed it on my face and I notice it now on others. The look is one of extreme vulnerability, nakedness, openness.

Nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach. Just around every corner lay something curious and interesting, something I had never before seen or done or known about.

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.