Open Quotes - page 5

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. (Napoleon Hill)
A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
We need to love more rather than be loved.We need to give more rather than to take.We need to be more open rather than be closed off to new ideas.Life is short, so let's enjoy what it has to offer moment to moment. View quote
Shannon Leto
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. View quote
Natalie Clifford Barney
So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go! View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? View quote
Bob Marley
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth. View quote
Democritus
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. View quote
Rumi
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us. (Julia Cameron)
Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence. View quote
Jim Morrison
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height. View quote
William Wordsworth
You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way. View quote
Peter F. Hamilton
You cannot open a book without learning something. View quote
Confucius
Fir: it contains a great deal of air and fire with very little moisture and the earthy, so that, as its natural properties are of the lighter class, it is not heavy. Hence, its consistence being naturally stiff, it does not easily bend under the load, and keeps its straightness when used in the framework. But it contains so much heat that it generates and encourages decay, which spoils it; and it also kindles fire quickly because of the air in its body, which is so open that it takes in fire and so gives out a great flame. View quote
Vitruvius
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. View quote
Vitruvius
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either. View quote
Vitruvius
Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said with sagacity and great learning that the human breast should have been furnished with open windows, so that men might not keep their feelings concealed, but have them open to the view. Oh that nature, following his idea, had constructed them thus unfolded and obvious to the view. (Vitruvius)
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. View quote
Robert Collier
The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind. View quote
Shunryu Suzuki