Openness Quotes

“The only path wide enough for us all is love.”

— Kamand Kojouri

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

— Khalil Gibran

The soul is healed by being with children.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

What I love is the openness of collaboration.

— Rostam Batmanglij

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

— Victor Hugo

Shift often from openness to closure.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.”

— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

— Lili Taylor

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

— Kirsten Gillibrand

From a place of stillness, openness, forgiveness and acceptance you can renew your commitment to any eating plan you like.

— Martha Beck

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

— James Whistler

If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere…

— Paul Wolfowitz

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

— Clara Barton

It's probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level.

— James Wolfensohn

Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.

— David Sheff

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

“I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over…

— Veronica Roth

It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to…

— Sylvia Plath

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

— Sidney Poitier

One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion…

— Marsden Wagner

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to…

— Joline Godfrey

Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind.…

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through…

— George Eliot

“I am shocked at the openness with which people reveal their secrets and personal failures. Until I realize: not everyone has been…

— Nicole Hardy

Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow,…

— Anne Lamott

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to…

— Tom Hanks

Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now…

— Terence McKenna

Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness.…

— Rajneesh

Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to…

— Susan Sontag

We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive,…

— John Cleese

Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits…

— John C. Maxwell

Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative…

— Edward Abbey

“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all…

— Carl Sagan

Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with…

— Michael Collier

“The early Christians took this story and used it as the backdrop for the doctrine of ‘The Trinity.’ For me, though, this…

— Eric Overby

We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful,…

— Pema Chodron

In a recent survive of Millennials around the world asking what most defines our identity, the most popular wasn't nationality, ethnicity or…

— Mark Zuckerberg

“I had travelled from Spain into Morocco and from there south to the Atlas Mountains, at the edge of the Sahara Desert…one…

— Paul Bogard

We're being asked to continually be "authentic" and "honest" with the world through social media. There's a demand to post our wedding…

— Alexander Weinstein