Quotes about Openness

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.

The thing is you can never sugarcoat anything, If you're going to tell a story, tell the truth. If you're going to tell something, why not tell it all?

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.

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.

Children are all foreigners.

Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.

Jesus was saying that you can't have a larger life with restricted attitudes.

Stay open for how God is going to do it. Don't put Him in a box and limit Him. Trust Him to do it His way. If we're set in how we want it to happen, we can miss the new thing.