We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
[Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962]
Tag: democracy america censorship freedom-of-thought marketplace-of-ideas media news openness secrecy truthfulness values
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma BombeckTag: dreams courage bravery openness sharing self-disclosure
When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.
Hermann HesseMake your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
Rainer Maria RilkeTag: patience fame openness ego receptivity
The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: love inspiration society children humility openness healing
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
Louis D. BrandeisTag: openness
How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.
Alexander ShulginTag: life drugs openness shulgin
only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.
Rainer Maria RilkeTag: experience relationships openness
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.
Jonathan Lockwood HuieTag: love wonderful openness expectations gift
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
Jane AustenTag: time opportunity openness marianne-dashwood intimacy self-disclosure disposition
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