Quotes About Openness

What you believe might be wrong; what you don't believe might be right! Don't be sure of things! Doubt! Investigate! Leave your stupid conceit that your belief is an absolute truth! Open your mind to all the possibilities!

When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it!

You have always the same view from your window! For different views, visit other houses! And for different ideas, visit other minds!

You may like walking barefoot, but keep your shoes with you; you may need it when the ground changes!

Lui non si vergognava di lasciarsi guardare dentro. Non aveva mai considerato disdicevole esporre al mondo le sue viscere, i suoi impulsi, le sue piaghe, le sue gioie. Vivere senza confini, senza innalzare barriere.

Scatter?' Tate said. 'Why? We stay here. Why go anywhere else?' 'Because we'll never know how great this place is until we leave it,' Narnie said.

If we all went out with people our type we'd be bored out of our brains

So often, we think we can guess our destiny. We're so certain we know what it looks like that we forget to open ourselves up to the pleasure of surprise.

And sometimes you meet someone who doesn't see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything.

Sometimes, you just gotta try it out before you judge it.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

A viagem obriga-nos a sermos outros, a descentrarmo-nos, a deslocarmo-nos para fora de nós. a viagem implica a disponiblidade para nos diluirmos, a vontade de sermos apropriados por outras almas.

the more things you're interested in, the better your work will be.

We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.

If you join us, you have to be willing to give the world the truth - not because you love the world, but because you love the truth.

Let's ask for the grace to be in awe of the God who, when he opened the door of his life to us, had this word consistently on his lips, remembering that even though we have no right to expect anything from him he is pleased to give us everything. He is pleased to open his heart and life to us precisely because he is the God of hesed.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

The love God pours out on the world is effective in our lives to the degree that we open ourselves to it. Until we do, we presume it is just an abstraction.

Are we just looking for a sympathetic ear to agree with us, or are we asking for people to speak the truth to us? I can remember many times being angry with someone because he spoke the truth to me. How about you?

It's best to put as much as possible on the table as early as possible.

To those who will see, the world awaits.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

The simple rule of thumb is, if they don't inspire you to be a better person and to live with integrity, honesty, openness, and courage, then let them go.

We can all take something positive from the class of 2020; to accept what has happened in the past, to embrace the present, and to remain open to the probability that it will get better in the future.