Openness Quotes

"My door is open for anyone who is willing to work with me, even if we do not always see eye-to-eye."

"My work is always on display, and my life is always on display when I make my work."

“People aren't quiet about their experiences with ghosts anymore.”

"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."

Graham Greene

"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."

Samuel Johnson

"Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants."

Louis Brandeis

"The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest."

"In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on."

Henri Nouwen

"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face."

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."

Shunryu Suzuki

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."

"Listening is being able to be changed by the other person."

Alan Alda

"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."

Charles Dickens

"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it."

"What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation."

Glenn Close

“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”

“I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible.”

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; where knowledge is free; where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls.”

“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible.”

Virginia Satir

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”

Indira Gandhi

“I never met a man I didn't like.”