Best 265 quotes in «openness quotes» category

We love those in whom we can confide.

We need to pay attention with a particular attitude: one of openness, curiosity, and receptiveness.

We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis

What can we do?" It's not dismissive or resigned. He really wants to know.

When Geoffrey’s not anxious, he radiates calmness, which probably means he sees more things and finds more things than other people do. It makes him open to new things too.

Why don't these translation books just include general phrases that could be applied in a variety of situations like, "Say nothing unless it's in English"?

When her daughter was frightened of a thunderstorm, the author pointed out the verse which declares the Heavens reveal the glory of God. When another storm occurred, her daughter ran to the window. "Mommy, God's really showing off today!

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

When the student is ready, the teacher appears.

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

You can recognize a saint by the wounds they don't disguise.

You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts.

You have to be vulnerable and open to experience the new, as nothing else gonna substitute it..

You will be effortlessly filled with as much as you can open yourself to receive.

When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dutch, either the author or John Adams accuses school authorities of "littleness of soul".

When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

When you are open to others, you give permission to those around you to be open to you.

When you open to the world, the world opens to you.

While we must not fall into the gnosticizing trap of seeing the world as only ideal, without any reference to the physical and tangible universe we inhabit, neither should we commit to crass literalism devoid of imagination and poetry.

Wonder at God's merciful love is a very practical emotion. Holy wonder will lead you to grateful worship and heartfelt thanksgiving. It will cause within you godly watchfulness; you will be afraid to sin against such a love as this.

You are no longer responsible for anyone's opinion. You have no need to control anyone, and no one controls you either... You don't need to be right and you don't need to make anyone else wrong...you are no longer afraid of being rejected, and you don't have the need to be accepted...you can walk into the world with your heart completely open, and not be afraid to be hurt.

You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us. Caring is not synonymous with crazy. Expressing to someone how special they are to you will make you vulnerable. There is no denying that. However, that is nothing to be ashamed of. There is something breathtakingly beautiful in the moments of smaller magic that occur when you strip down and are honest with those who are important to you. Let that girl know that she inspires you. Tell your mother you love her in front of your friends. Express, express, express. Open yourself up, do not harden yourself to the world, and be bold in who, and how you love. There is courage in that.

...you trace a finger over my scar and uncloak me like a timid star...

Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable.

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Honesty is always the best policy.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

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

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

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

Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

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

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

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

Shift often from openness to closure.

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

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

Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

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.

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

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

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

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