Life Openness Quotes

#1. Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.

Richard Rohr

#2. Emulate nature; see! A flower creates it's beauty with openness, kindness, slowness and with harmony.

Debasish Mridha

#3. My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life.

A. J. Jacobs

#4. Openness is also an acceptance that just as you have the inherent right to create your life as you see fit, so others have the same right with their own lives, even if their design differs from yours greatly.

Stephen Richards

#5. The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birth parents punished and banished from a place in his life.

Kathleen Silber

#6. Their openness would probably be career suicide in the atmosphere of Byzantine court-eunuch intrigue that is public life in the United States today.

Neal Stephenson

#7. 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 you to the core of yourself, where you learn what justice is and how it has to be fought for.

Paul Monette

#8. I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.

Aspen Baker

#9. A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey.

Debasish Mridha

#10. ...God is not located in some far-off celestial abode but is met in the embrace of daily life; that spirituality is, quite simply, about vulnerability and openness and falling in love with solid ground.

Marilyn Lacey

#11. Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead

Alan Watts

#12. Her life is lived through the masterpiece of art, that she cannot draw.

Nikki Rowe

#13. The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.

Paul C. Nagel

#14. The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

Thomas Merton

#15. For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

Johnny Depp

#16. The writer's life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.

Dani Shapiro

#17. Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Benno C. Schmidt Jr.

#18. Go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly, you will be okay.

Alan Cumming

#19. The healing of the spirit has not been completed until openness to challenge becomes a way of life.

M. Scott Peck

#20. And this is also what he takes Christian doctrine, in all its complexity, to be centrally about, that is, teaching an attitude rather than a set of propositions. Call it joyous openness to life. What's not relevant about that?

George Pattison

#21. Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.

Federico Fellini

#22. 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. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

Madeleine L'Engle

#23. We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

Max De Pree

#24. It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

Alan Cumming

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

Edward Abbey

#26. 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.

Andrew Pettegree

#27. We always get help we ask for.
"Knock and the door will open"
Make sure it's the right door.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

#28. Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

Frank Herbert

#29. Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#30. I envy these people. Wide-open suffering, their messes all hanging out. Lives boiled down to raw need--a near-holiness to it. And all of us driving our cars up and down the mountain--we'll go on forever trying to fool each other.

Jamie Quatro

#31. It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#32. Children live life as a controlled experiment.

Jennifer Senior

#33. May spending time with You be my first priority, may listening and obeying mark my life, may extravagant childlike joy and amazement mark my demeanor, may an openness to share your grace quickly and easily flow from me, may I seek your forgiveness and excitedly accept it.

Katie Kiesler

#34. Life is something that really cannot be explained. It got to be experienced! For experiencing life to its fullest an attitudes of openness, gratefulness, happiness, flexibility are required. But most of all 'being in love' is crucial to live life to its fullest potential.

Vishwas Chavan

#35. Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.

David Steindl-Rast

#36. Life cannot be mastered by a method but needs to be met with an attitude of openness and discovery

Charlotte Selver

#37. 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? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.

Alexander Shulgin

#38. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations. But I can look back at the way I thought and felt even as a little kid and there was a lot of wonder there, and openness to the many sides of life.

George Saunders

#39. Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight

Laurie Nadel

#40. For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.

Rabindranath Tagore

#41. More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#42. When you move as openness and softness of heart you're moving in this life within your self in the same way that your being is. When you move as openness and softness of heart, you are all the way into the surface moving and growing, developing as oneness.

John De Ruiter

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

Michael Beckwith

#44. Bonhoeffer did not expect his life to be a tidy edifice of perfection.

Samuel Wells

#45. I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness.

Anne Heche