Opening Your Eyes Quotes

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

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  Dr. Seuss (1978). “I can read with my eyes shut!”

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• Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

  Bill Cosby

  Fake People, Sleep, Eye

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2009

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• Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

  Bob Marley

  Life, Music, Sadness

  Bob Marley (1998). “The Best of Bob Marley (Songbook)”, p.37, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Dream, Stars

  Theodore Roosevelt (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist”

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• Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Ignorance, Eye, Mislead Us

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• I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Eye, Journey, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

  John Maeda

  Real, Eye, Differences

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2009

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• To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

  Nancy Reagan

  Inspirational, Life, God

  "'Just Say No'". Address to the Nation, edition.cnn.com. September 14, 1986.

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• In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

  Carl Sandburg

  Good Morning, Optimistic, Eye

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• Praying is not about asking; it's about listening...
  It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Eye, Listening, Asking

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• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

  The Seven Pillars of Wisdom suppressed introductory chapter (1926).

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• To have a functioning body and not to use it is like having 20/20 vision and never opening your eyes.

  Bill Phillips

  Eye, Vision, Use

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• It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.

  Franz Kafka

  Heart, Eye, Presence Of Mind

  Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (1981). “The Metamorphosis”, Bantam Classics

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• You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

  Richard Rohr

  Eye, Cynical, Negative

  "Third Sunday of Advent: Keeping Our Hearts Open in Hell". Fr. Richard Rohr's homily at the Center for Action and Contemplation, cac.org. December 16, 2012.

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