Openness Quotes
204 quotes
"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 alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being."
"I love letting her know how much she means to me. A love in secret is but a shadow that’s cold and lonely."
"A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect."
"Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace."
"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 closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)"
"Life provides chances to open your heart all the time."
"It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion."
"Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are different."
"Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm."
"Be honest. This applies to every area of your life. Sketchiness is not an attractive trait. No more trying to cover up your baggage, sweeping things under the rug, withholding truth, blatant lying, or even telling seemingly ‘harmless’ white lies or half-truths – release the need to lie completely! Start NOW."
"Opening up to your intuition represents a commitment to pay closer attention to how you think and feel."
Laurie Nadel, Dr. Laurie Nadel's Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power
"The only path wide enough for us all is love."
"The more open we are, the more we can learn. The more we learn, the more we recognize that every one of us is a hero"
"If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient.", 25 February 2010]"
"Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying."
John Ferling, Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others."
"Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty mug--rain splatters on dry window pane--open journals of closed memories... tears of laughter and joy of pain... schmaltz of diametric morning."
"There is no excuse good enough to ever be out of alignment with love. You’re going to get hurt, and you will feel pain. Yet your purpose is to keep loving, anyway. Keep moving forward with an open heart. Love is a Divine gift given to humanity. Wasting it is no longer an option. Love is what brings light to a dark place. Love is what transforms a dying world into a thriving planet."
"I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation."
"Martin Luther was a thoroughly educated man but he wore this lightly. His sermons were littered with only examples and improving tales, drawing equally from the fables of Aesop and the follies of life he observed all around him."
"If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee."
"As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar."
"The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea."
"Lincoln bought a German language newspaper."
Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
"Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary."
Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
"Life produces a different taste each time you take it."
"He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult."
"...Society needs to open its collective mind to all ideas and ideologies. It needs to give its people the chance to listen to the opinions of others, and then examine them critically instead of rejecting them prematurely. Such a creative dialogue based on positive critical thinking can enhance and develop ideas."
"It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
"There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality."
"Because there was no pre-existing patrician elite, those successful in the new book industry could write very swiftly to the top of the social hierarchy."
"The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt."
"Happiness lies even in little tiny butterflies. You just have to cpen up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise."
"Happiness lies even in tiny little butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise."
"Happiness lies even in ltiny ittle butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise."
"Nixon was by nature a excluder. Halderman like to exclude people. When Nixon's need met Halderman's abilities, you had the most perfect formula for disaster. – Jim Shepley"
David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
"Henry Cabot Lodge was like medicine, good for you, but hard to take. – Teddy White"
David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
"Eleanor Roosevelt on the changes in John F. Kennedy that led her to drop her opposition to his nomination for president: "He has the qualities of a scholar, and a sense of history. I had the feeling that he was the man who can learn. I like him better than I ever had before because he seemed so little caulk-sure, and I think he has a mind that is open to new ideas."
David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
"The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him."
"He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature."
Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
"The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke"
Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
"Get attached to your dreams; The but to that statement is, be open to all possibilities in your mission."
"Become dangerously open to all points of view. Are you dangerously open, or safely closed?"
Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
"The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis"
"Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others."
H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
"Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham"
Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
"The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation."
"You can recognize a saint by the wounds they don't disguise."
"God gave us feelings to feel them, not to judge them. He is the Judge."
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