Openness Quotes - Page 5

• Don't let fear or frustration - or the fact that others around you seem to be all set - immobilize you. But do, from this day forward, open yourself up to possibilities you might never have considered. Step up. Step out of your comfort zone. Consider saying ‘yes’ even when ‘no’ feels much safer

  Meredith Vieira

  Frustration, Might, Facts

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• Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

  Bertrand Russell

  Nature, Civilization, Has Beens

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.64, Routledge

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• I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also complete stillness; there's no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There's simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that's beautiful.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Beautiful, Two, Perception

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• Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

  Lili Taylor

  Two, Trying, Flexibility

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• A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

  Robert Frost

  Men, Political, Tolerance

  "The Geography of the Imagination". Book by Guy Davenport, 1981.

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

  Frank Ocean

  Honesty, Magic, Honest Person

  "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life And Love, Crazy

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• Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

  Bruce Lee

  Time, Moving, Echoes

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 13), 2000.

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• Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Simple, People

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Block, Addiction, Always Being Right

  Stephen Levine (2010). “A Gradual Awakening”, p.76, Anchor

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• It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

  Ben Stein

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

  Ogden Nash

  Doors, Mind, Pressure

  Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown

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• To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul [McCartney] is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'.

  John Lennon

  Sex, Class, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am; it helps me find my place in the community of man.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Dream, Men, Who I Am

  Sheldon B. Kopp (1974). “The Hanged Man: Psychotherapy and the Forces of Darkness”, Science & Behavior Books

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• I give myself the green light to move forward, and to joyously embrace the new.

  Louise Hay

  Moving, Light, Giving

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jul 05, 2015

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• Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.

  Rajneesh

  Happy, Hurt, People

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• God's way is better than your way. His plan is bigger than your plan. His dream for your life is more rewarding, more fulfilling, better than you've ever dreamed of. Now stay open and let God do it His way.

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, Dream, Way

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• When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for lots of pleasant and fascinating and useful surprises. A new and more satisfying way of life begins to open up, just by noticing what we see.

  Douglas Harding

  Doubt, Looks, Way

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

  Jan L. Richardson

  Strength, Soul, May

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• 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.

  James Heckman

  Jobs, Doors, Self

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• Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Hypocrisy, Looks

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• Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This leads immediately in his mind to the prediction of new phenomena which may one day be verified by experiment.

  Henri Poincare

  Mind, One Day, Principles

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• 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

  Life And Love, Taken, Writing

  Madeleine L'Engle, Library of Congress (1984). “Dare to be Creative!: A Lecture Presented at the Library of Congress, November 16, 1983”, Washington : Library of Congress

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• You cannot have a desire to surrender because that's non-surrender. Surrender arises spontaneously sometimes in people who don't even have a word for it. And I know that openness is there in many people.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Desire, Sometimes

  Source: home.online.nl

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• In the cocoon, there is no idea of light at all, until we experience some longing for openness, some longing for something other than the smell of our own sweat. When we examine that comfortable darkness - look at it, smell it, feel it - we find it is claustrophobic.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Change, Light, Sweat

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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