Closing Your Eyes Quotes

• 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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• Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Inspirational, Dream, Eye

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• Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.

  Erich Fromm

  Eye, Journey, Long

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• 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 even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Coward, Ears

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 24, 2017

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• Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Light, Looks

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• Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

  Anthony Doerr

  Inspirational, Eye, Forever

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Heart

  "The World As I See It (Letter to a Friend of Peace)". Book by Albert Einstein, 1949.

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• Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Eye, Reality, Optimism

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• Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would be if you were living this preferred life. Notice the differences in how you behave and present yourself; allow yourself to spend several seconds breathing in the new image, expanding your energy into this.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Eye, Breathing

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.68, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No matter what's happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you've been withholding it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Eye, Events, Matter

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 11, 2011

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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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• Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Fate, Play

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 11, 2012

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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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• If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing your eyes and mouth to experience darkness and silence. I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me. Do not be afraid to close your eyes and be silent in prayer, meditation, rest or sleep. In those states you may rediscover a new self. Then your life, time and thoughts will become yours again and you can live your unique myth.

  Bernie Siegel

  Prayer, Sleep, Eye

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• [My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did.

  Luis Walter Alvarez

  Father, Reading, Eye

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• You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.

  James Caan

  Eye, Night, Closing

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Spiritual process is not about chanting a mantra or closing your eyes, spiritual process is essentially about enhancing your perception.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Eye

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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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• What makes the perfect kiss? Closing your eyes when you kiss is important. Or lifting up the leg, but that's more of a girl thing, I'm manly. Passion is good! She brings out the best in me. (Selena)

  Justin Bieber

  Girl, Passion, Eye

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• A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.

  Nicholas Lore

  Eye, Joy, Scary

  "The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success". Book by Nicholas Lore, The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success.

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• I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.

  Betty White

  Lying, Eye, Sleep

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

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• Try this experiment, closing your eyes and navigating with your ears. It's eerie because walls, you can actually hear your footstep maybe bounce off of or you can feel the vibration of your voice and help that... use that to navigate.

  DJ Spooky

  Wall, Eye, Voice

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

  Andrew Vachss

  Fear, Eye, Looks

  Andrew Vachss (2010). “The Weight”, p.208, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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