Closed Eyes Quotes

• Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.

  Rumi

  Love, Fall, Eye

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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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• You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Relationship, Broken Heart

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• I prefer to see with closed eyes.

  Josef Albers

  Eye, Perception, Abstraction

  Arts/Canada, Vol. 23, (p. 46), 1966.

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• Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Ignorance

  Song: Strawberry Fields Forever

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• Close your eyes and you will see.

  Joseph Joubert

  Eye, Vision, Awe

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

  Lewis Carroll

  Eye, Reality, Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (1972). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.84, Jeff Koo

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• People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

  Andy Warhol

  Love, Fall, Eye

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Eye, Meditation, Darkness

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• This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

  Frederick Leboyer

  Eye, Tragic, Brows

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• I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness

  e. e. cummings

  Eye, Air, Darkness

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

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• No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Eye, Thinking

  Henry Van Dyke (2009). “Joy & Power: Three Messages with One Meaning”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within

  Pipilotti Rist

  Art, Creativity, Eye

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• Stop giving energy to the things you don't want.

  Wayne Dyer

  Unrequited Love, Closing My Eyes, Giving

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Wisdom of the Ages: A Modern Master Brings Eternal Truths into Everyday Life”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind working?or rather, has your mind watched itself in operation, just to see what your thoughts are, what your feelings are, how you look at the trees, at the flowers, at the birds, at people, how you respond to a suggestion or react to a new idea? Have you ever done this?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Flower, Eye

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Music, Eye, Doors

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• Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open.

  Tupac Shakur

  Eye, Thug, Legs

  Song: Wonder Why They Call U, Album: All Eyez on Me, 1996

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• My heart is burning with love. All I can see is this flame. My heart is burning with passion, like waves on an ocean. I'm at home, wherever I am. And in the room of lovers, I can see with closed eyes the beauty that dances. Behind the veils, intoxicated with love, I too dance the rhythm of this moving world.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Moving, Heart

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• For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.

  John Calvin

  Eye, Path, Guides

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.301, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Eye, Trying

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• You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.

  Anthony de Mello

  Eye, Disciple

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.41, Image

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• To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.

  Ivan Panin

  Wise, Strong, Eye

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• The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.

  Willem de Kooning

  Eye, Hands, Drawing

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• Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.

  Brandon Mull

  Running, Eye, Hazards

  Brandon Mull (2008). “Rise of the Evening Star”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bible, Prayer, Eye

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