Quotes About Openness

Expand your mind, challenge yourself, learn more, do more and try more. Get enthusiastic, passionate and excited about the unknown. Try something new, visit new places, dance to the latest beats. Simply get out and give it all and you will never stop growing, smiling and loving life.

I am a feather for each wind that blows

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home

I love people who freely express themselves and give others the space and courage to express themselves too.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.

I've given myself away, the whole of me, every part.

you can tell the most terrible truths if you first open the human heart with humor.

I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.

So often, as writers, we keep pressing ourselves against a wall. We know we're stuck. We know this direction isn't working. But stubbornness and pride keep us pushing in the same direction. In backing away from our original plan, we must have faith that the essence is there, but some radical departure must take place.--Writer's Digest

Prefiero que mi mente se abra movida por la curiosidad a que se cierre movida por la convicción. GERRY SPENCE

Los muros de la mente son más sólidos que los muros de piedra, ya que tienen la capacidad de no permitirnos ni siquiera plantearnos que puede existir la posibilidad de otra realidad distinta a la que experimentamos.

Para convertirse en un observador de sí mismo, de los demás y del mundo hay que tener una mentalidad de principiante, de alguien que reconoce que no sabe y que quiere saber. Y esto no es posible sin el interés que despierta la curiosidad.

El plan trazado es la absoluta libertad. Conocernos y ver que pasa, dejar que corra el tiempo y revisar. No hay trabas. No hay compromisos

Además sé que con él no voy a callar. Quiero desconfiar del sobreentendido, del pudor y de la vergüenza. Esta vez quiero decirlo todo, lo exquisito y lo repugnante, para que nada quede abandonado a la imaginación, para que nada pueda traicionarnos

Contigo no tengo necesidad de vivir a la defensiva. Me siento feliz".

Having an opinion suggests you've stopped trying new things. And I hope I will never lose my delight in trying new things.

my favorite kind of people are the ones who let me be as crazy as i am.

If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.

Politicians argued successfully for cuts in expenditure and more openness. Consequently, secret services became more answerable to politicians than they ever had been, just at a time when they needed to be more furtive.

I need to be invited onto the back of a motorcycle and taken somewhere unfamiliar now and then; I welcome a degree of disruption, need a curtain pulled back, a hallway leading into some part of the world I've never seen.

We need to learn not simply to read books but to allow ourselves to be read by them.

You know I don't have much experience of big families, but from what I've seen there are two types. The type where everything is out in the open, where they argue and shout and slam doors, and where disagreements are dealt with loudly and quickly. And the other type, where no one really says what they mean, where everyone tiptoes around and emotions are kept buried. ~Here to Stay