Openness Quotes - Page 2

He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander

Barbara W. Tuchman

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life’s changes but also to the Divine Light within us and others. This is our choice. Although often perceived as a weakness, being open and surrendering to the experience of the present moment is our greatest strength. By authentically living Life in the Now, we submit to Divine guidance where we find the freedom to see everything equally and sacred in Truth.

Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.

How you look it is pretty much how you'll see it

Rasheed Ogunlaru

The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed Milton's works enough to feel comfortable quoting them from memory.

David McCullough

We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest. That, perhaps, was the chief miracle about it. Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. Her mind consumed all impediments.

The day that lay before (was) full of infinite possibilities, though in a million superficial ways it was identical to the day before.

Amazement + Gratitude + Openness + Appreciation = an irresistible field of energy

Frederick Dodson

To move forward, simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest will happen, as a beautiful and effortless journey of cooperation and listening.

We need to pay attention with a particular attitude: one of openness, curiosity, and receptiveness.

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.

William Zinsser

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

Albert Einstein

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

History teacher Bob Alston's "expertise late not in his sweeping knowledge of the topic but in his ability to pick after a tumble, to get a fix on what he does not know, and to generate a roadmap to guide his new learning. He was an expert at cultivating puzzlement it was Alston's ability to stand back from first impressions, to question his quick leaps of mind, to keep track of his questions that together pointed him in the direction of new learning.

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

Quite often we are led to aporia, an impasse, unable to proceed a step further. Socrates is almost always there, but even he is only a supporting character. The starring role is given to the philosophical question. It is the philosophical question that is supposed to take center stage, cracking us open to an entirely new variety of experience.

Rebecca Goldstein

Nixon under pressure turned only to reporters from publications already favorable to him; Kennedy, in trouble, turned to those most critical and dubious of him, and if anything tended to take those already for him a bit for granted.

David Halberstam

A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas.

Bonhoeffer did not expect his life to be a tidy edifice of perfection.

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

David Halberstam

The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation.

You can recognize a saint by the wounds they don't disguise.

God gave us feelings to feel them, not to judge them. He is the Judge.

The more broken you are, the more light gets through.

Culture is nested in context, not genes.

Thomas L. Friedman

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

John Maynard Keynes

I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.

Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends.

A confused and weak man hides his weakness and uncertainty with fiery speeches.

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility.

MercyMe

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham

Barbara W. Tuchman

It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The author says resilience is the ability to move rob a preferred state to an expanded list of alternatives.

Resilient systems fail gracefully. A perfect system is often most fragile.

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality.

He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

The Word of God bares weight on all ages always.

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.

Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary.

Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

Martin Luther was a thoroughly educated man but he wore this lightly. His sermons were littered with only examples and improving tales, drawing equally from the fables of Aesop and the follies of life he observed all around him.

Andrew Pettegree

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee.

As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.

The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are different.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead

Regrets are the last words you speak to your loved ones when you die and the one thing we all fear when we live. I'd rather regret the things I've done and said than regret the things I haven't done or said. It is all the experiences and people you missed out on in life that you will feel the most regretful for in the end. God will forgive you of your mistakes, but there is nothing to forgive if you have never even tried, done or said anything that made a difference in your life or others.

Shannon L. Alder

The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life's changes but also to the Divine Light within us and others.

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