Best 265 quotes in «openness quotes» category

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.

There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.

The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Shift often from openness to closure.

Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator.

A confused and weak man hides his weakness and uncertainty with fiery speeches.

Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.

A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought and felt about things. He liked that about her. He hated people who reeled off their thoughts and feelings to you, who took it for granted that you wanted to know all their mechanism. Reserve was always more interesting.

Widen your consciousness to the dimension of the earth and you will have a place for everything.

All questions have a basis in love. All answers lead to LOVE. If you can color everything in love, you have all the colors in the world.

Although the author dealt some of John Bunyan's conclusions in spiritualizing the details of Solomon's Temple, he attributes to Bunyan a "consecrated ingenuity".

Always be open to inspiration. You never know where it may come from. Begin with an open mind, end with an inspired heart.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?

A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas.

Amazement + Gratitude + Openness + Appreciation = an irresistible field of energy

Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.

And do I still have that look?" he asked. "Yes just there," she kissed his eye. "The desire to love me is still there. If you look closely you can see mine for you, my tears never washed it away.

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.

A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good question today. That, he said, was how he became a scientist.

An open mind is a traveled mind.

And then Jonah heard God’s voice. “Jonah, do you know what the difference is between you and the trees?” He was confident it was God because God usually asked questions but gave no answers. Jonah didn’t need a divine answer to this question, he knew it. “Yes,” he said. “The difference between me and the trees is that the trees let go of their leaves. I keep holding onto mine. The trees make room for new life. I don’t.

Become dangerously open to all points of view. Are you dangerously open, or safely closed?

We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.

Anthropologist Victor Turner writes that we are most free to explore identity in places outside of our normal routines, places that are in some way "betwixt and between." Turner calls them liminal, from the Latin word for "threshold.

Are you open-minded? If not, leave the door open to it.

As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.

A squirrel flies in," said Dr. Meescham. "This I did not expect at all. It is what I love about life, that things happen which I do not expect. When I was a girl in Blundermeecen, we left the window open for this very reason, even in the winter. We did it because we believed something wonderful might make its way to us through the open window. Did wonderful things find us? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But tonight it has happened! Something wonderful!" Dr. Meescham clapped her hands. "A window has been left open. A squirrel flies in the window. The heart of an old woman rejoices!

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

As with all travel, replacing familiar surroundings with the unknown fires an electric charge that awakens a sense of adventure.

As you open your heart to wisdom you will begin to see the unseen essential.

At that moment Homero saw him with his heart and laid down his weapons

Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.

Be honest. This applies to every area of your life. Sketchiness is not an attractive trait. No more trying to cover up your baggage, sweeping things under the rug, withholding truth, blatant lying, or even telling seemingly ‘harmless’ white lies or half-truths – release the need to lie completely! Start NOW.

Because there was no pre-existing patrician elite, those successful in the new book industry could write very swiftly to the top of the social hierarchy.

College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.

Being an open and vulnerable doesn't mean you are weak..

Be open to the possibility that new people who come into your life now are helping propel you to new heights of learning, growth, and opportunities.

Bonhoeffer did not expect his life to be a tidy edifice of perfection.