Openness Quotes

Openness Quote of the day

The soul is healed by being with children.

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 control.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.

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

We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation.

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

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

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

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

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

Stand fully in the now moment with gratitude, enthusiasm, openness, and readiness to respond to Life as it greets you.

During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.

Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.

Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

What the world needs most is openness: Open hearts, open doors, open eyes, open minds, open ears, open souls.

Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

The main character of any living system is openness.

If you have a built-in level of respect and trust and openness to essentially be yourself, it allows for a deeper uncensored communication [with your partner].

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.

Grace is openness. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views, and allow divine grace to express itself through you.

When you know you know nothing, an air of openness and humility prevails. Then real understanding enters the mind.

Blessings upon your mind and heart. Let openness, trust and love be your first response. This is the secret to everlasting joy, peace and contentment.

Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.

Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives.

The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

In general I don't like definitions, but 'Minimalist' is a term that means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be called a Minimalist than something else.

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

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

Maybe Governor Romney in the spirit of openness should tell us how much money he's made off of how many households that have been foreclosed by his investments.

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

One of the qualities that all the leaders have is a voracious appetite to learn whatever they do not as yet know and understand, coupled with an openness to new experiences.