Quotes About Openness

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.

It is time to venture out of the comforting land of either/or opposites and travel into the uncertain territory of both/and.

But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.

There can be no secrets in a house where there are children.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused.…Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen." —George Saunders

If you open your hand, you may receive everything.

La société démocratique, où toutes les fonctions sont formellement ouvertes à tous, suscite les espoirs et les ambitions. Elle multiplie en conséquence, à tous les niveaux le nombre des déçus et des humiliés.

if you leave yourself at home and are eager to let the world remake you as it sees fit, you can be at home almost everywhere you go. Home is the condition, the state of unencumbered ease, you export to everyone you visit. —

If we live every day, whether at home or away, with kindness, if we approach the world with a sense of wonder and curiosity and appreciation, if we encounter others with respect and openness, if we see our human differences as enriching rather than threatening, we will go a long way toward creating a world graced, interlaced, with peace and opportunity.

Wyobra? sobie ?ycie bez l?ku przed podejmowaniem ryzyka i poznawaniem ?wiata. Nie boisz si? czegokolwiek straci?. Nie boisz si? ?y? i nie boisz si? umrze?.

Open your heart and refuse to walk around the world begging for love.

Be open to new information and ideas.

Take blips in stride—instead of trying to deflect problems or obstacles and send them off in another direction, try to embrace them. Turn them into something positive. You can often disarm people this way and get them on your side. Don't get too attached to your ideas. Adjust, adapt, and take things in stride.

I am willing to sound dumb. I am willing to be wrong. I am willing to be passionate about something that isn't perceived as cool. I am willing to express a theory. I am willing to admit I'm afraid. I'm willing to contradict something I've said before. I'm willing to have a knee-jerk reaction, even a wrong one. I'm willing to apologize. I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.

Because the more we hide, the harder it is to be known. And we have to be known to connect.

I am willing to sound dumb. I am willing to be wrong. I am willing to be passionate about something that isn't perceived as cool.

kids with parents who are honest about their shortcomings seem to do better in life. What I mean is parents who aren't trying to be perfect or pretend they're perfect have kids who trust and respect them more. It's as though vulnerability and openness act as the soil that fosters security. And I'd say that's the quality I most often sense in the children of honest, open parents. I sense security.

Paul paused again, and then he opened up. He confirmed that, indeed, the defining characteristic of their family was honesty and vulnerability. "There are no shadows in our family," Paul said. "We don't hide anything. But that's a tough place to get to. It takes work and it's painful.

Albert Einstein said, "The mind that opens to a new idea never comes back to its original size.

Fear puts an end to openness of manner; fear leads to concealment; fear sows the seed of much hypocrisy, and leads to many a lie.

Fear puts an end to openness; fear leads to secrecy; fear sows the seed of much hypocrisy and leads to many lies.

Vulnerability, not music, is the food of love.

I choose to believe things are possible, even when I don't know how they will happen.

always keep your mind open to opportunity and it will come calling.