325 Quotes About Openness

When she connected with someone, she opened up like a rose to expose the most tender, pure, selfless, and loyal heart I'd ever known.

The fact that California was the most cosmopolitan state in the union, as a result of the gold rush, simply made white voters more susceptible to racist and xenophobic arguments.

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

Openness gives us the necessary humility to accept, or at the least entertain, the concept that our inability to explain certain things does not render them false or unreal.

It is so important for us as empaths to maintain a sense of connectedness with life. When we put up walls to protect ourselves, we end up exhausting, victimizing, and alienating ourselves. It is far more satisfying, effective, and healthy to work with our gifts, rather than against them.

That evening we gathered in the dining room, a forty-foot-high-ceiling atrium with indoor plants and outdoor blooms separated by tall windows—the impression of great openness, even while sheltered.

You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts.

If you are not Open to receive your Greatness, how can you live it? Your resistances and fears keep you trapped behind closed doors. Release your resistances and doors will open

Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.