Quotes about Openness

This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.

You lose so much out of life by being cynical

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A healthy person can accept criticism.

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

You can't make God move in your life, but you can make room for God to move in your life.

The warrior's approach is to say 'yes' to life: 'yes' to it all.

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear--and we just don't want to hear it.

It is next to impossible to hear the voice of wisdom if we are not really listening for it to begin with. The best counsel in the world is wasted counsel if our minds are already made up.