When You Open Your Eyes Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Say the prayer first thing in the morning when you open your eyes; then say it again before you go to sleep. Dream the prayer. Feel the prayer with your emotional body. Be the prayer; align your faith and intent with the prayer until your whole life is based on this prayer.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#3. When fear actually turns into a friend. When you open your eyes and all you see is the dark because it's been so long since you've seen the light.

Rachel Van Dyken

#4. You don't know what's behind that smile. You can't imagine who someone will turn out to be. We assume the sun will rise every morning just because it has done every other day, but what happens when you wake up to darkness? When you open your eyes and find, today is the one different day? I

Abigail Haas

#5. All things come to an end, but when you open your eyes after a long sleep a new journey begins.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.

Italo Svevo

#7. A heads up ... so you're not too disappointed that Disney lied - no matter how much you wish it, I'll still be here when you open your eyes.

Samantha Young

#8. Try smiling quietly when you open your eyes in the morning. Or try saying out loud, "I'm happy." In that moment, the energy of happiness will gather around you. Remember that feeling and express it whenever you get the chance.

Ilchi Lee

#9. Look at you," he continued. "I want to build things for you, give you a reason to be soft. Give you a reason not to reach for a fucking gun when you open your eyes.

Debra Anastasia

#10. I spent nearly two years in a small village - perhaps seventy families. I've never worked harder or learned so much so fast in my life; as an anthropologist you are at work from when you open your eyes in the morning to when you close them at night.

James C. Scott

#11. Her body felt like it'd been beaten with a hose. This must be what it felt like to get old. It wasn't that your body fell apart from living so long. It was that you had to take so many stompings from life that you'd be happy when the time came to close your eyes and never open them again.

Janet Fitch

#12. When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#13. When I fuck you, Gemma, I want your eyes open, looking right at me. I've never hidden who I am from anyone I've touched, and I won't start with you.

Ella Frank

#14. Where is your compassion when i need it most? Open your eyes, love, and see what is right before you: that I am not merely a friend, but a man deeply, desperately, in love with you.

Julianne Donaldson

#15. Close your eyes and listen, then walk twenty paces farther than you thought necessary. Just when you're certain you've lost your way completely, you'll be there. Open your eyes.

Alice Hoffman

#16. When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#17. You must love when your eyes are closed and love when your eyes are open. Love endlessly.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Isn't that how it always is? Just when you think you've lost something so precious, you can't ever recover from it . . . and then, if you keep your eyes and heart open, you find that the loss has made room for something else of great value, something you would never have found otherwise?

Bob Burg

#19. You should see the eyes of some of those children when I say to them we're going to have to open your head up and take out this tumor. They're not happy about it, believe me. And they don't like me very much at that point. But later on, they love me.

Benjamin Carson

#20. 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

#21. Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.

Frederick Lenz

#22. When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.

Charlotte Bronte

#23. If you've got a good idea and you're willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it, keep your head up and eyes open because you don't know when opportunity will come knocking.

Paula Deen

#24. You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.

Bill Ayers

#25. It would be that time
late at night
when your ears reach out for any sound. When you can see more with your eyes closed than open.

Chuck Palahniuk

#26. Those whose eyes are open cannot see for they are blinded by the lust of all that is around them, and it is only when your eyes are closed that you may see that which is not visible

Judy Azar LeBlanc

#27. If you simply kept your eyes open, it seemed, you just might find something valuable in the most unlikely of places. The trick was to recognize a good thing when you saw it, no matter how odd or worthless it might at first appear, no matter who else might just walk away and leave it behind.

Daniel James Brown

#28. When you stop admiring yourself
and let the eyes of the heart
open your vision to vast other worlds
then all you do, will become admirable

Rumi

#29. Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes

Steven Morrissey

#30. Open your eyes and look around carefully at the moments when you think you have failed, because the lighthouse of the success mysteriously appears amongst the fog at those very moments!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. When you forget yesterday and embrace the new vision of what you are to become through the eyes of your best friend, you have found a new sister standing by the open door that was once closed in your heart.

Shannon L. Alder

#32. You never knew when God would send you just what you needed, sometimes even when you didn't realize you were missing anything in the first place. You just had to keep your eyes-and mind-open to the possibilities.

Mia Ross

#33. Laugh at the night, at the day, at the moon, laugh at the twisted streets of the island, laugh at this clumsy boy who loves you, but when I open my eyes and close them, when my steps go, when my steps return, deny me bread, air, light, spring, but never your laughter for I would die.

Pablo Neruda

#34. Prettiest thing I've ever seen."
"Gray,"
"In that getup, in your jeans and tees, in your bikini on the lawnmower, when I open my eyes in the morning and see you next to me, anytime I see you, that's what I think. First thing that comes to mind. Anytime. Every time.

Kristen Ashley

#35. Serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.

Vicki Baum

#36. How things appear is only the thin, papery outer skin of the onion. Of course, when you cut open the onion, your eyes will sting and water, and then you can't see at all. You're lucky if you don't slice your finger.

Elizabeth Cunningham

#37. As any parent can tell you, it's better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are being unreasonably quiet. They're probably doing something they don't want you to see, and if they hear you coming, they'll hide the evidence. I

Elizabeth Bear

#38. When your heart is open, your eyes see the beauty that is all around you.

A.D. Posey

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

Carl Sandburg

#40. I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.

Dinaw Mengestu

#41. You have never been, nor shall ever be, a person. Refuse to consider yourself as one. But as long as you do not even doubt yourself to be Mr. So-and-so, there is little hope. When you refuse to open your eyes, what can you be shown?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#42. When you say 'he has seen the light' you sound as if you mean 'corrupted,' " he said. "Something like that, yes. Different worlds, Commander. Down here, it would be unwise to trust your metaphors. To see the light is to be blinded. Do you not know that in the darkness, the eyes open wider?

Terry Pratchett

#43. It's okay if you can't see what you're doing, cuz even when your eyes are open, you can't see what you're doing.

Jenna Marbles

#44. Don't ever worry bout bein holy, babychild. Just keep your eyes wide open except when you sleep. Then let the Lord's mighty vision see you through the night.

Rebecca Wells

#45. When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?

Adyashanti

#46. What happens when you shut your eyes?
The images you have been accustomed to look at suddenly disappear.
See through the images by closing your eyes and opening your heart.

J.R. Rim

#47. What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are friends to the women. When you open the closet, and your eyes are swollen, and you don't like the way you look, you go to your friends.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#48. It was that you had to take so many stompings from life that you'd be happy when the time came to close your eyes and never open them ever again

Janet Fitch

#49. When you're unsure, jump with your eyes closed and legs wide open

Yasmin Ahmad

#50. I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and listen with them. Have you noticed that? When it's dark and you can't see a thing, you open your eyes really wide and glance back and force, like your eyes become your ears?

Ellen DeGeneres

#51. You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice.
And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see,
your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free of judgment
and shining in its endless beauty.

Paul Ferrini

#52. Are you sleep walking through life? When you move towards your dreams with open eyes and a conscious mind.. then you truly wake up.

Milan Ljubincic

#53. The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow beside my face and to see your eyes open in the morning when I lie next to you - just watching you, waiting for you to wake up.

John Irving

#54. I want my options left open." Her last words left her breathless, and she leaned in closer, her breath on his chin. "When I see that spark in your eyes, while you're talking about your career,

Melissa Foster

#55. [N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.

J.I. Packer

#56. When will you open your eyes to the possibility of the world?

Tony Curl

#57. When you look in the mirror and see your reflection, your eyes are open; when you look in the mirror and see God, your soul is open.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#58. Do you know that if you close your eyes really tightly, so you can see stars, when you open them again it's a brand new world.

Michael Robotham

#59. Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed ... living is what you do with that dream once you open your eyes!

Nathan Parks