Quotes About Openness

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.

His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it.

younger generations have a more international mindset

When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.

Flowing from this union, source of a plenitude of joy, the love of the couple reveals itself through the daily acceptance of the limits and faults of each other and in mutual openness. It is this acceptance in and through gentleness, kindness, forgiveness, confidence and the desire to see shining in the other the warm light of the Spirit of God that becomes the great sign of the merciful love of God for man and His incessant forgiveness.

La actitud principal y necesaria en el discernimiento comunitario es la apertura, la búsqueda de la verdad y la confianza de que esta verdad será alcanzada

You live in a glass house, Mr. Smith.

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs.

Do not judge and you will never be mistaken.

I hope the amazed reader will be patient for a while—in order simply to read.

A bud can be beautiful, a work of art even. But I'm finding it simply can't compare to the openness of the blossom. Looking for my sun.

Nobody likes to have their cherished beliefs dumped on, but dumping on cherished beliefs is the name of the game.

Grace is what matters, in anything... That's a quality I admire quite greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly, keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It keeps you alive and it keeps you open for more understanding.

showing up with a reliably open heart and a will to share whatever spirit you can muster is what resonates and transcends technical perfection.

Among all the impossible things he had already witnessed, what were a few more?

People who have strong likes and dislikes find life very difficult; they are as rigid as if they had only one bone.

Spend enough time putting yourself out there in the world—your sensitivity is not something to be feared.

The material world constrain us, often with gret beneficence, to see each person and thing in its time and place, its historical context. But mental life doesn't so constrain us. It is porous, open to air and light, swings forward while swaying back, scatters its stripes in all directions, and delights to find itself beached beside something invented only that morning or instead standing beside an altar from three millennia ago.

Quando si viaggia, si prende tutto come viene, lo sdegno rimane a casa. Si osserva, si ascolta, ci si entusiasma per le cose più atroci solo perché sono nuove. I buoni viaggiatori sono gente senza cuore.

To talk to a stranger is like talking to the stars: it doesn't commit you.

To love means to open ourselves to suffering. Shall we shut our doors to love, then and 'be safe'?" That's the only alternative, really. But locking ourselves up and never facing another person won't fix what's really going on in our souls.

Suffering creates the possibility of growth in, holiness, but only to those who, by letting all else go, are open to the training—not by arguing with the Lord about what they did or did not do to deserve punishment, but by praying, "Lord, show me what You have for me in this.

En el interior de cada uno de nosotros hay una capacidad inimaginable para la bondad, para dar sin buscar recompensa, para escuchar sin hacer juicios, para amar sin condiciones.