Quotes about Openness

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.

Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.

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

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses.

Who needs a house? I'm talking about your heart. You have plenty of guest rooms there. And that's what you do. You open your heart to people. You keep lovely little rooms in there, just waiting for your friends to come visit. People feel as if they can come right in, just as they are. You don't entertain, you love. That's what lasts. That's why people like me feel as if I will always be your friend. You hold a special place for me in your heart.