Openness Quotes - Page 21

• What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it.

  Robert Dallek

  War, Fighting, Giving

  1991 In the NewYork Times, 24 Feb.

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• Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

  Mary Pipher

  Friendship, Honesty, Kindness

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.141, Penguin

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• Is it possible to be alive, active in the world, and yet have such calm, such kind of inner openness and presence that one can lead a life, at least in part, that is an expression of that quality of meditative quiescence that's on the one hand quite alert and on the other hand, completely at ease, completely at rest.

  Arthur Zajonc

  Expression, Hands, Quality

  "Holding Life Consciously". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 24, 2010.

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

  Michelle Cruz

  Greatness, Trials, Tribulation

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

  Joan Halifax

  Action, Compassionate, Connectedness

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• I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find it within myself to extend sympathy, attention, and support. When they are grieved, I listen with openness and gentle strength. I offer loyalty, friendship, and human understanding. Without undermining or enabling, I aid and assist others to find their strength. I allow the healing power of the Universe to flow through me, soothing the hearts and feelings of those I encounter.

  Julia Cameron

  Loyalty, Heart, Healing

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• We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Believe, Pluralism Is

  Ronald Reagan's Remarks to Members of the Congregation of Temple Hillel and Jewish Community Leaders in Valley Stream, New York, www.reaganlibrary.gov. October 26, 1984.

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• At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.

  Carl Sagan

  Attitude, Heart, Science

  "The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark". Ch. 17 : The Marriage of Skepticism and Wonder. Book by Carl Sagan, 1995.

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• The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  William P. Young

  Children, Healing, Healed You

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• The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Spirit, Jazz

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

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Law Of Attraction

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Nov 24, 2012

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Flower, Anger

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Fragility, World, Kind

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