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Quotes About Receptivity

For love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Have this thought deeply imprinted within you: One day when I am ready for it I shall receive what I am to receive.
~ Rudolf Steiner
But such a sensation can happen only when I feel free and remain open and receptive to all my feelings, including the negative ones.
~ Alice Miller
people will never choose to bring drugs into the legal realm of regulation so long as they believe they are demonic substances that hijack most of their users and destroy them. When they discover that these drugs are in fact less dangerous than alcohol, and addiction is caused mainly by trauma and isolation rather than the drug itself, they will be more receptive to new approaches.
~ Johann Hari
Life can't give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms.
~ Louise Hay
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
~ Andre Gide
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
~ Minor White
If Satan can get us to interpret our mission task as populating heaven with as many people as possible, we will resort to going only to those places of receptivity and harvest and neglect doing what is needed to reach the unreached and penetrate the dominions of darkness with the light of the gospel.
~ Ed Stetzer
Não sei, respondeu rapidamente no medo de que a receptividade que conseguira desaparecesse e se achasse defronte de oito rostos aborrecidos ou hostis. - Não sei ou sei, é conforme, acho que me apavora um bocado o amor que os outros têm por mim e eu por eles e receio viver isso até ao fim, inteiramente, entregar-me às coisas e lutar por elas enquanto tiver força, e quando a força se acabar arranjar mais força para prosseguir o combate.
~ António Lobo Antunes
You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.
~ Dwayne Johnson
I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.
~ Ruth Bernhard
I have found that the only way to give feedback without triggering white fragility is not to give it at all.
~ Robin DiAngelo
Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.
~ Frank Herbert
It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.
~ Franz Kafka
It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.
~ Franz Kafka
Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.
~ Henri Nouwen
All the windows of my heart I open to the day.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
~ Fab Five Freddy
People don't understand that when you come into any theatrical experience, you've got to come locked and loaded, that you're a part of the experience, too. You can't come with your arms crossed. Be open to it.
~ Viola Davis
We are able to hear only what we're ready to take in. As productivity guru David Alan points out - information is always available, but WE are not always available to the information.
~ Rolf Gates
The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity.
~ Rollo May
If you are capable of hearing, listen.
~ Ronald Everett Capps
We keep looking so hard in life for the "specific message," and yet we are blinded to the fact that the message is all around us, and within us all the time. We just have to stop demanding that it be on OUR terms or conditions, and instead open ourselves to the possibility that what we seek may be in front of us all the time.
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.
~ Madeleine L'Engle