Openness Quotes

307 quotes by 251 authors

It is so easy to close down to risk, to protect ourselves against change and growth. But no baby bird emerges without first destroying the… — Patricia Monaghan
Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche
What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process,… — Joko Beck
We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them.… — Madeleine L'Engle
The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a difficult life brings… — Paul Monette
Hiring people with diverse backgrounds brings in a flexibility of thought and openness to new ways of doing things, as opposed to hiring clones from… — Yvon Chouinard
The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To… — Rebecca Solnit
Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the… — Marta Andreasen
The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which… — Medard Boss
In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of… — Jane Yolen
Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called… — Jan Morris
Love is not all that is required in a relationship. It needs understanding, openness, kidness, patience, long-suffering — Iyanla Vanzant
Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and… — Jeremy Rifkin
Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying. — Polly Toynbee
You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still,… — John Welwood
The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness. — Myles Munroe
The first basic need of a male is sexual fulfillment; for a female, affection. The second most basic need of a male is recreational companionship;… — Myles Munroe
Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable. — Julius Genachowski
The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will… — David Deida
More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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251 authors contributed a total of 307 Openness Quotes, led by these top contributors: