Truth And Openness Quotes

#1. We love seeing raw truth and openness in other people, but we're afraid to let them see it in us. We're afraid that our truth isn't enough - that what we have to offer isn't enough without the bells and whistles, without editing, and impressing.

Brene Brown

#2. I think wherever we are, we can create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where women and those who feel marginalized feel safe to speak the truth of their lives.

Terry Tempest Williams

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

Debasish Mridha

#4. Let her [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.

John Milton

#5. At the local coffee-shop, hunched in one of the secretive, high-backed booths with hundreds of peoples' names gouged into the wood, we drank cup after cup of black coffee and talked frankly about sex.

Sylvia Plath

#6. In order to achieve great things in your life, you have to be consistent in what you are doing.

Emmitt Smith

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

Debasish Mridha

#8. Sometimes, the only way to evolve is to open ourselves fully.

Kamal Ravikant

#9. Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

Thomas Hardy

#10. Have no fear for the unsettlement or the disturbance of the Kingdom of heaven. It began in eternity, it will go on through everlasting; there is no panic in the divine personality. God is peace, God gives peace, God gives rest.

Joseph Parker

#11. Freedom and wildness, that which we were born into, is a grand mystery and miracle that creates a openness reserved not for barring us in but for keeping us out of cages. It is our ability to find the truth that has been a survival tool for our species both individually and corporately.

Leviak B. Kelly

#12. Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward.

Dave Eggers

#13. Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it.

Chris Brown

#14. Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#15. The road of truth is broad; set the mind on it, and you feel expansive openness and broad clarity. The road of human desires is narrow; set foot on it, and you see brambles and mire before you.

Zicheng Hong

#16. Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.

Saint Augustine

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

Alan Cumming

#18. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Anonymous

#19. There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Frank Ocean

#20. Funny how the universe repeated patterns ad infinitum, generation after generation, until someone finally turned around and started walking in the other direction.

Selena Kitt

#21. Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.

Shannon L. Alder

#22. Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment,
in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart.
By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state,
we obtain the quality of effortless freedom of whatever arises.

Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

#23. As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

Robyn Hitchcock

#24. There ain't nothing like regret to remind you're alive.

Sheryl Crow

#25. Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. When we see ourselves as we truly are and accept ourselves, we build the necessary foundation for self-love.

Bell Hooks

#26. Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

Karen Russell

#27. 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.

Criss Jami

#28. He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it. Pope Alexander

Barbara W. Tuchman

#29. Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.

Mahatma Gandhi

#30. Working in South Africa and the people in Johannesburg get under your skin. It stays with you. It's a place I want to take my children back to. It's a place that filled me with great joy and inspiration but also sadness. I think it's one of the most complex places on the planet.

Ryan Phillippe

#31. The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.

J. Richard Singleton

#32. Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#33. But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions.

Vladimir Nabokov

#34. We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

William Barrett

#35. 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

#36. Faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

Margaret Deland

#37. Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth.
It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our
natural wisdom.

Stephen Levine

#38. All lies are not meant to deceive, some become inevitable in a society lacking in transparency and openness.

Tarif Naaz

#39. Openness and truth between partners were necessary if the marriage was to have a chance of bringing them any sort of happiness.

Mary Balogh

#40. You go nowhere by accident. Wherever you go, God is sending you. Wherever you are, God has put you there; He has a purpose in your being there. Christ who indwells you has something He wants to do through you where you are. Believe this and go in His grace and love and power.

Mark Batterson

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

David Deida

#42. He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

Khalil Gibran

#43. If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

Barbara W. Tuchman