“The first task of a competent teacher is to teach his students to acknowledge inconvenient facts. By these I mean facts that are inconvenient for their own personal political views. Such extremely inconvenient facts exist for every political position.”— Max Weber, amazon.com
“You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“But he who cannot unveil himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the unhappiest one of all.”— Søren Kierkegaard, goodreads.com
“There is nothing like peace and compromise. Let us unite with the blessing of this treaty and be one nation. You know full well that denial1 on both sides has thrown us apart and that our country is suffering greatly. Visualise how blessed it could prove to testify to each other’s truth. Come, give…”— Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, amazon.com
“A religion which does not inculcate universal compassion is no religion at all. Similarly, a human being without the faculty of compassion is no human at all.”— Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, amazon.com
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“What I want is to open up. I want to know what’s inside me. I want everybody to open up. I’m like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin — to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I’m sure of it.”— Henry Miller, amazon.com
“We do not need to reveal ourselves to others, but only to those we love. For then we are no longer revealing ourselves in order to seem but in order to give. There is much more strength in a man who reveals himself only when it is necessary. I have suffered from being alone, but because I have been…”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I value diversity and inclusion, am not denying that sexism exists, and don’t endorse using stereotypes. When addressing the gap in representation in the population, we need to look at population level differences in distributions. If we can’t have an honest discussion about this, then we can never…”— James Damore, gizmodo.com
“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”— Sherman Alexie, amazon.com
“I’m not interested in borders so much as I like putting things together.”— Sam Shepard, sam-shepard.com
“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”— Criss Jami, thekillosopher.blogspot.com
“Once you’ve gotten to the point where you’re open to a calling, there’s always a call.”— Hubert Dreyfus, full-tilt.blogspot.com
“I still feel insignificant and empty, but it doesn’t bother me. It liberates me and makes me free and makes me able to do crazy things.”— Hubert Dreyfus, full-tilt.blogspot.com
“I had nothing in me. I still have nothing in me. That’s what’s so interesting and nice. I’m just absolutely as far as I can tell open to whatever problem comes and grabs me.”— Hubert Dreyfus, full-tilt.blogspot.com
“The capacity to be vulnerable—emotionally but also intimately—is huge. It’s about a willingness, space, an exchange of acceptance. It doesn’t mean we let our entire guard down all at once, that we have no boundaries. But an understanding of why openness matters is key.”— Renée Picard, elephantjournal.com
“Academics and the media in particular should support viewpoint diversity instead of serving as the handmaidens of political expediency by trying to exclude voices or damage reputations and careers. If academics and the media won’t support open debate, who will?”— Roger Pielke Jr., wsj.com
“We love seeing raw truth and openness in other people, but we're afraid to let them see it in us. We're afraid that our truth isn't enough - that what we have to offer isn't enough without the bells and whistles, without editing, and impressing.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com