Openness Quotes

307 quotes by 249 authors

Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling â€œtraditionsâ€; litanies to family values are… — Susan Sontag
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants. — Louis D. Brandeis
How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas?… — Alexander Shulgin
We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause… — Ronald Reagan
only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Letâ€™s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the worldâ€¦Try walking around with a child whoâ€™s going, â€˜Wow, wow! Look at… — Anne Lamott
Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is… — Thrity Umrigar
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue. — Bell Hooks
Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing… — David Deida
This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The… — Muriel Barbery
...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome. — David Foster Wallace
I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness. — Audre Lorde
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;â€”it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with… — Jane Austen
It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my… — Anais Nin
There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are… — Stephen Levine
Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower. — Victor Hugo
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own… — Martha C. Nussbaum
To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside… — Rajneesh
My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above… — Susan Hill
If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment. — Eckhart Tolle

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