Quotes about Openness

Don't live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first.

When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.

There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Even when the angel asks him specifically, "Do you not know what these are?" Zechariah answers with humility, "No, my lord." Had Zechariah not responded with humility and openness, he probably would not have gained much from the whole experience. People who think they know it all already cut themselves off from learning anything new.

It makes no sense to tell everyone to look at you if you're not ready to be looked at yet.

So talk like you really talk. Reveal things that others are unwilling to discuss. Be upfront about your shortcomings. Show the latest version of what you're working on, even if you're not done yet. It's OK if it's not perfect. You might not seem as professional, but you will seem a lot more genuine.

You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

There is no qualification for government, but virtue and wisdom, whether actual or presumptive. . . . Every thing ought to be open; but not indifferently to every man.

Everything ought to be open,—but not indifferently to every man.

Humility means that you acknowledge you don't know everything, and you might be especially confused when it comes to God.

You can't have a deeper relationship if you won't allow yourself to be known.