Open Our Eyes Quotes

#1. It was just a colour out of space - a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.

H.P. Lovecraft

#2. Usually the way I think someone is radicalized is through a personal experience. The thing about environmental activism is that we are all having a personal experience with our environment, whether we open our eyes or not.

Peter Sarsgaard

#3. I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.

Daniel Defoe

#4. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#5. The sixth doorway is the Doorway of Vision. This relates to seeing with the eyes of love and corresponds to the energy center located in the third eye area of our forehead. When this doorway is open, we're more able to see life through love instead of differences.

Marci Shimoff

#6. in order to see, we must first open our eyes.

Charles F. Glassman

#7. 18O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#8. Who can say it's not what we see with our eyes open that is distorted, and that what's described here isn't the true essence of things?" He slowed down outside a door. "Haven't you ever heard old men sigh that life's a dream?

Ismail Kadare

#9. We are all blessed ones. Heaven is no longer in the clouds. It is right here, all around us, everywhere; we must only open our eyes to see it.

Kim Chestney

#10. It's time that we finally admitted that we can see the love that's everywhere, filial and romantic and platonic and shared by all different types of people, in all different combinations. This is the future. All we have to do is open our eyes, and see.

Seanan McGuire

#11. To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.

Edmund Burke

#12. To gain new ideas we must constantly be exposing ourselves to the treasures of the world. We need to keep our eyes and our minds open. Remember, the creativity of God is everywhere. We simply need to see it, and then let that spark new ideas.

Stephen Altrogge

#13. Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*

Marianne Williamson

#14. From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honor of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#15. Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.

Phillips Brooks

#16. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power.

Starhawk

#17. I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

Kevin Henkes

#18. Our eyes are not only the windows to our soul; they guide us through a life that should not be travelled blindly. Open them.

K.M. Golland

#19. When we open our heart to receive God's word, God in-turn will open our eyes so we can see the answer to our problems in His Word.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#20. ... what kind of life do we live if we let fear break us down? The truth is there will be tough times, we've certainly been through them before; but good things happen everyday. Great things. We just have to open our eyes and see them.

Christene Houston

#21. Sometimes it's hard to see the things that are holding us back. Sometimes it takes a push to make us truly open our eyes.

Lara Adrian

#22. Exploration is a wonderful way to open our eyes to the world, & to truly see that impossible is just a word.

Richard Branson

#23. If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.

Chogyam Trungpa

#24. We are retracing the lines and windows that are no longer there. We are rebuilding from our memory, trying to do with our eyes open what we usually do with our eyes closed.

David Levithan

#25. We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.

Antony Gormley

#26. Our eyes are as open as much our minds are.

Debasish Mridha

#27. And remember, sometimes our dreams appear where and when we least expect it. Sometimes, just sometimes, you can even find them waiting in your own bed when you open your eyes. (Esther)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#28. Open Your Eyes, Enjoy Life and take care Friendship with our Heart.
Jan Jansen

Jan Jansen

#29. All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.

Paul Levy

#30. Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

Ulrich Beck

#31. Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.

Nathaniel Branden

#32. It's our task to immerse ourselves ... while keeping eyes and hearts open ...

Donna Tartt

#33. Says to ordinary people like me and you that instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

Bob Goff

#34. We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend
our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.

Dale E. Turner

#35. With all its eyes the creature sees the Open. Only our eyes are as though reversed, and placed all around them as traps, encircling their free exit.

Jessica Pierce

#36. With all its eyes the creature world beholds the open, while our eyes are turned in ward, said

Jim Harrison

#37. There is a great need today for all mankind to heed the plea to cease to find fault one with another. Some of us are so accustomed to wearing faultfinding spectacles that we cannot see past them. We need to open our eyes and ears and look for the good and the blessings around us.

Marvin J. Ashton

#38. People are hungry for God. People are hungry for love. Are you aware of that? Do you know that? Do you see that? Do you have eyes to see? Quite often we look but we don't see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.

Mother Teresa

#39. My potential salvation ... must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open our eyes with "aha"
while direct, abstract, learned assaults upon generalities usually glaze them over.

Stephen Jay Gould

#40. Every thing - every atom is conscious. To find it we have to open our eyes and see with a higher consciousness.

Debasish Mridha

#41. Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

Gerry Adams

#42. To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Thomas Carlyle

#43. Only the Holy Spirit can open our eyes. Only He can convict us of the depth of our sin, and only He can convince us of the truth of the Gospel.

Billy Graham

#44. And all of us with our closed eyes smelled the frangipani blossoms in the big rectangles of open wall, flowers so sweet they conjure up sin or heaven, depending on which way you are headed.

Barbara Kingsolver

#45. We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.

Bill Ayers

#46. What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.

Charles Baudelaire

#47. Once we begin to live the truth that we have found in our inner adventures, a more liberating world will open before our eyes.

M. Laurie Cantil

#48. We may remain more or less open-minded on the subject of the death penalty, indisposed to commit ourselves, so long as we have not seen a guillotine with our own eyes.

Victor Hugo

#49. That's another one of our rules. Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will be even worse the next time you open your eyes.

Haruki Murakami

#50. Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run ... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.

Victor Cherbuliez

#51. When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Michael Bridges

#52. Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Teller

#53. Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

Richard Paul Evans

#54. Being on stage is so much fun and enjoyable. Because it's a lot of fun, we work really hard on music programs and our eyes automatically open up. Because this is where I'm most confident and where I'm at my best, I found a way to enjoy all of it. And I'm still searching for more ways.

Kim Tae-yeon

#55. There is an old phrase, 'hiding in plain sight.' This is where we find the loved one we miss so much. All we need to do is open our eyes, our minds, and our hearts.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#56. Sometimes we need to open our eyes wide and intentionally look for Jesus, in the midst of our own worlds.

Brandon Heath

#57. Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.

Michael Morpurgo

#58. I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written in characters different from those of our alphabet it cannot be read by everyone.

Galileo Galilei

#59. We need to keep our eyes and ears open.

C.S. Lewis

#60. The gray-green surface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. And although we don't speak, I know we all see it: Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish.

Amy Tan

#61. Many have asked, pointing incredulously toward a sweep of tract homes and billboards, why picture that? The question sounds simple, but it implies a difficult issue - why open our eyes anywhere but in undamaged places like national parks?

Robert Adams

#62. All schools are bad and the one we attend is always the worst if it doesn't open our eyes. What

Thomas Bernhard

#63. If we fear to open our eyes during the day time, we will complain that life has nothing to offer except darkness.

Debasish Mridha

#64. Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.

Chogyam Trungpa

#65. Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Alan W. Watts

#66. Faith is blind, if we don't open our eyes to see the blessings.

Charles F. Glassman

#67. The first step is to stop thinking of nature as something far away that we must save from someone else and start seeing it all around us. The first step is to open our eyes to the existence of nature in our daily lives.

Nathanael Johnson

#68. Every day from the crack of dawn," he said- and i completed the rest, "until we can't keep our eyes open one second longer

James Patterson

#69. Living is hard. And every day our feet get heavier and we pick up more baggage. So, we stop and take a breath, close our eyes, reset our minds. It's natural. As lond as you open your eyes and keep going.

Cora Carmack

#70. Hope gives us the ability to open our eyes and think, belief takes us through the valleys and faith directs us straight to the place of seeing the unseen.

Euginia Herlihy

#71. Sometimes we remember onlywhen we see the pass, and the pass is remember when our eyes are open

Pedro

#72. What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears ... as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#73. For my eyes, my day-to-day just involves curling my lashes to open up my eyes and applying our mascara, The Quickie. If I'm getting my makeup done, I like to get individual lash extensions or a strip of false lashes, depending on how glam I want to get.

Kourtney Kardashian

#74. Losses are always great eye openers. Pleasures never open our eyes. It's only through pain that we learn our weaknesses.

Swami Satchidananda

#75. We cannot see the beauty of life with our eyes closed. Only when we cry with our eyes open can we begin to shed tears of joy.

Tehya Sky

#76. In everything we do, it is our hearts that make the difference, not our outer appearances ... keep both eyes closed and instead open a third eye
the eye that sees the inner realm.

Elif Shafak

#77. Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#78. As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and to the simple idea that we ought to recognize ourselves in the struggle of our fellow men and women.

Barack Obama

#79. What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

Laurie Lee

#80. Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.

Anne Graham Lotz

#81. We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

#82. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

Pico Iyer

#83. We all tend to make zealous judgments and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. If we feel that we already know something in its totality, then we fail to keep our ears and eyes open to that which may expand or even changes that which we so zealously think we know.

Madeleine L'Engle

#84. The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the essence of nowness. If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place.

Chogyam Trungpa

#85. If you look really carefully, when it comes to the Secret, the power or our mind, the power of our intention in our daily lives, it's all around us. All we gotta do is open our eyes and look.

John Frederick Demartini

#86. If we disregard our values, we'll open our eyes one day and won't be able to recognize 'our world' anymore.

Frank Sonnenberg

#87. We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with thelives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#88. We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life.

Genevieve Gerard

#89. The Unicorn Sonata ... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.

Peter S. Beagle

#90. But we should open our eyes to the many ways in which hypervigilance keeps them penned in from the more liberated life they deserve to live and that in turn would prepare them for adulthood.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

#91. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.

Donald Berwick

#92. Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.

Danielle Steel

#93. Or we can cast off our fear, gather those things around us that are precious, shedding that which only seeks to hinder us and head out into the world, eyes wide open.

L.B. Johnson

#94. We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.

Marge Piercy

#95. Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#96. To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us.

Gregg Krech

#97. The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

Samuel Beckett

#98. I close my eyes And sink within myself Relive the gift of precious memories In need of a fix called innocence When did it begin?The change to come was undetectable The open wounds expose the importance of Our innocence A high that can never be bought or sold

Chuck Schuldiner

#99. Tennis is a funny game, and it takes a life-time of keeping one's eyes open on the circuit to have any chance of understanding the strange phenomena that exist in our exciting sport!

Sania Mirza

#100. The point is, every book we had could save us in a different way
only, we had to open it. We had to drop our eyes to the page and drink in the words that were there.

Nova Ren Suma