Quotes About Openness

Be bold enough to appreciate. Be strong enough not to criticize.

If nothing excites you and nothing makes you wonder, you are going to miss all of the wonderful things that life can offer.

The highest wisdom is to know that you know nothing.

The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.

Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.

Kindness has no religion. It is like an open sky.

The greatest gift you can open is your heart to someone in need.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

Always be humble enough to learn something new. Otherwise, it's only a matter of time before your knowledge becomes outdated.

Keep your eyes open. Look at the world without prejudice, pay attention to your sources, and decide for yourself where the truth lies. That is the greatness of the path I'm offering you.

Never do anything in secret or anything that you would wish to hide. For the desire to hide anything means that you are afraid, and fear is a bad thing and unworthy of you. Be brave, and all the rest follows.

That's what I love about the short story. You are naked on the page. There is nowhere to hide.

leave yourself open to accept things rather than anxiously searching for them. You

If you don't like it out there, you know the door is always open to you." Because they lived in a cave, the door was always open to everyone, but neither of htem mentioned that. They both knew what Ed meant.

Welcoming, openness, is the nature of life.

In welcoming all that is, we live our freedom, openness, directionlessness, desirelessness.

If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.

After years of a very busy life, I found myself with no commitments. It was a very free-floating state that was open, perhaps, to new ideas.

If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.