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Quotes About Openness

Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.
~ Louise Fitzhugh
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
~ Glenn Close
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.
~ Jane Austen
John you are not being open with me
~ Elizabeth Proctor
What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive; I feel that anything can happen.
~ Anouk Aimee
People struggle most with seeing new ways of doing things and often need help in breaking through their tradition-bound mindsets.
~ Stewart D. Friedman
For me, being vulnerable is asking for help from other people whatever it may be.
~ Mason Jennings
I'm looking to get better, and anything that will help me accomplish that, I'm all ears.
~ Joe Mauer
To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
~ Alan Cohen
As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.
~ Michael Craig-Martin
I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.
~ Paul Klee
I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!
~ Axel Munthe
It's important how we feel in our homes, because feeling good makes us more gracious. And that makes it easier to welcome others not only into our homes but into our lives.
~ Nate Berkus
A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity.
~ Francis Schaeffer
If there's a place for it in your heart, there's a place for it in your home.
~ Mary Randolph
Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.
~ Pico Iyer
I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.
~ Pico Iyer
Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.
~ Sidney Poitier
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Honesty is all you need.
~ Cass Elliot
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
~ bell hooks