Quotes About Openness

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

And it was true. People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought. Stand at a bus stop, sit in a strange pub, get banged up, and someone would always give you their life story.

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

The secret to happiness is to embrace the humility to accept what comes and the courage to continue on your life's path with an open heart.

The secret to happiness is to embrace the humility to accept what comes and the courage to continue on your life's path with an open heart.

If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not left there for that express purpose.

Roman political culture's extraordinary openness and willingness to incorporate outsiders, which set it apart from every other ancient Western society that we know.

Edgy in a different way was the idea of the asylum, and the welcome, that Romulus gave to all comers – foreigners, criminals and runaways – in finding citizens for his new town. There were positive aspects to this. In particular, it reflected Roman political culture's extraordinary openness and willingness to incorporate outsiders, which set it apart from every other ancient Western society that we know.

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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn." ? Mary Catherine Bateson

If you love someone, tell them. For hearts are often broken by words left unspoken.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love.

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

It is not only necessary to love, it is necessary to say so.

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

You have not stolen my heart, but I give it freely

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside