Quotes About Openness

She met the pleasurable things of life with frank, open appreciation, and against distasteful conditions she rebelled. Dissimulation was as foreign to her nature as guile to the breast of a babe, and her rebellious outbreaks, by no means rare, had hitherto been quite open and aboveboard.

A characteristic which distinguished them and which impressed Mrs. Pontellier most forcibly was their entire absence of prudery.

Let nothing human be foreign to me

Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart...

Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.

Open your heart," she said gently. "Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.

Moment by moment we have the opportunity to say yes, to move into our lives and open ourselves to the adventure...

We have to just let go, expose ourselves, let someone else see who and what we really are. At least one other person.

What it requires is admitting the possible. Believing the evidence of your eyes and ears without trying to explain it all away. Accepting that you'll never be able to cross every t and dot every i. And most of all, it requires a willingness to believe that science isn't the ultimate authority. Just because something can't be rationally explained on the basis of today's science doesn't mean it isn't real.

Josie just says what she thinks. Doesn't care if she says the wrong thing. That gets irritating sometimes but I love her for it.

When I look back to this period, and remember it was less than twenty years from the end of a world war in which the Japanese had been their bitter enemies, I'm amazed by the openness and instinctive generosity with which our family was accepted by this ordinary English community.

Curiosity is what lets a young mind grow and keeps an old mind young.

If you aren't adorable, it's only because you won't let yourself be adored.

glásnost y perestroika, apertura

Que te quiero y quiero casarme contigo, pero también me gusta Walli, y me gusta acostarme con él, y el amor es libre, ¿o no? Así que ¿por qué vamos a mentirnos?

made no bones

Nobody complains about all the fog. I know why, now: as bad as it is, you can slip back in it and feel safe. That's what McMurphy can't understand, us wanting to be safe. He keeps trying to drag us out of the fog, out in the open where we'd be easy to get at.

Jealousy is the lock that closes your heart, understanding is the key that opens it.

There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.