Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. Votes: 1
Joseph CampbellFor the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. Votes: 1
Mignon McLaughlinA woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. Votes: 1
Honore de BalzacSometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. Votes: 1
Alexander Graham BellHumility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron DewarFew are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen we open our heart up to someone, that energy, of course, comes into us.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellOnly those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.
Logan Pearsall SmithThe whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.
Recep Tayyip ErdoganWho is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door?
Anne Morrow LindberghThe home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanNo one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul...
Ralph Waldo EmersonEach morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings.
Leigh Mitchell HodgesOpen your hearts as wide as ever you will, the Spirit of the Lord shall fill them.
George WhitefieldToday a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.
Grenville KleiserThe essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.
Hans-Georg GadamerThrough your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.
Mehmet Murat ildanThe open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
William Least Heat-MoonI don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
Edvard MunchPoetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide.
Johnny TillotsonIn time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart.
Miyamoto MusashiAnyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.
Seneca the YoungerWhere is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
Baden Powell de AquinoAlmost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.
Graham SutherlandAs one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.
Hazrat Inayat KhanJust immerse yourself in the culture of the music - it will open some doors for you.
Joe Louis WalkerI don't need to get paid. I just wanna open. I just wanna get in front of new people.
Eric HutchinsonThe people that hurt you are the ones you love because you are the most open to them.
Frederick LenzI can only control what I do. I can try to suggest and be open, but trust is the key.
Giancarlo EspositoIntensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.
Jeanette WintersonIt's true for you to soften within, to let your heart open, to let your heart soften.
John de RuiterGreater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.
John Jacob AbelWhen you’re a housekeeper’s daughter, you see the world through a half-open door.
Laraine DayMeg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named
Madeleine L'EngleThe writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart. Votes: 4 Taiye Selasi
The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ. Votes: 4 Max Anders
So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping. Votes: 5 Michael Ian Black
I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person. Votes: 1 Tove Lo
Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner. Votes: 3 Candace Cameron Bure
The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges. Votes: 1 Christina Aguilera
I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful. Votes: 4 Bonnie Bassler
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent. Votes: 3 Nolan Ryan
My inspiration comes from God, so I always have to be open, kind of like being an antenna. I like to write songs people love. Votes: 1 Brenda Russell
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. Votes: 2 Barbara Sher
There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that. Votes: 1 Jennifer Love Hewitt
Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others. Votes: 1 Simon Sinek
Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open. Votes: 4 Jack Nicklaus
From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all the same, all the time. Votes: 3 Rajneesh
Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! Votes: 4 Victoria Abril
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Votes: 3 Benjamin Franklin
Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that. Votes: 4 Gautam Gambhir
I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected. Votes: 1 Adepero Oduye
I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob. Votes: 1 Bo Diddley
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. Votes: 3 Phil Jackson
I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too. Votes: 3 Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
I would love to meet my soul mate. I'm always kind of keeping my eyes open for somebody. Votes: 1 Holly Madison
Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes. Votes: 1 Alice Foote MacDougall
Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don't give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people. Votes: 1 Tena Desae
If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours. Votes: 2 Joyce Meyer
African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple. Votes: 4 Herman Cain
The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have hoped such free and open access to information would have had. It has instead provided free and open access, without the traditional media filters, to a barrage of disinformation. Votes: 4 Lawrence M. Krauss
In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. Votes: 4 Dan Savage
A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established. Votes: 1 John Cotton Dana
I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government. Votes: 4 Roy Barnes
"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one. Votes: 3 Guy Garvey
There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book. Votes: 4 Will Rogers
The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working people to come into America to help raise their standard of living and improve the American economy. Votes: 4 Michael Badnarik
I think that one of the other lessons about what happened here is that open carry laws, even though many police, sheriff departments in Colorado support them, make it much harder for law enforcement to do their jobs. Votes: 3 Jonathan Michel Metzl
Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open. Votes: 1 Peter Dawson
My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication. Votes: 5 Rick Springfield
When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation. Votes: 3 Gail Parent
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. Votes: 4 Quentin Crisp
I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue. Votes: 4 Ma Jian
Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion. Votes: 1 Colin Farrell
Investors don't like uncertainty. The market is telling us that they need certainty, they need to see where the economy is heading. If the government is committed to continue the Open Door policy, they will need to come up with concrete policies and execution steps to increase confidence. Votes: 3 Zhang Xin
We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play Votes: 3 Ringo Starr
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. Votes: 1 Joseph Campbell
In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education. Votes: 6 Gael Garcia Bernal
Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit. Votes: 4 Rachael Ray
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. Votes: 4 Charles Horton Cooley
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. Votes: 4 Adlai E. Stevenson
The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions to work together with those inside government to solve problems. Votes: 5 Beth Simone Noveck
I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else. Votes: 3 Jane Seymour
The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone. Votes: 3 Dick Cheney
I've always been really opinionated, and mixed with being really open hearted, open to people shifting what I think all the time, but I like to speak with conviction. Votes: 3 Alanis Morissette
If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss. Votes: 6 Lorraine Bracco
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. Votes: 2 Jared Diamond
If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment. Votes: 3 Ben Bernanke
When Gingrich attacked CNN's John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused him of lowering the level of discourse in a presidential debate, suggesting that such a discussion is unworthy of consideration by voters. Votes: 3 Robert Dallek
The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over. Votes: 5 Katy B
The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over. Votes: 3 Katy B
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. Votes: 3 Terry Pratchett
I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning. Votes: 1 Cesar Millan
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. Votes: 4 Phil Jackson
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. Votes: 3 Marcus Aurelius
I don't have a type looks-wise, but all my exes have been funny, open-minded and ambitious. I can't stand men with no passion in life. Votes: 1 Kathryn Prescott
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. Votes: 3 Richard Dawkins
The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds. Votes: 3 Dennis Prager
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. Votes: 6 Adlai E. Stevenson
We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed. Votes: 6 Vicente Fox
I don't believe in open relationships. If you want to be with someone else, you shouldn't be in a relationship in the first place. Votes: 6 Pixie Lott
Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road. Votes: 3 Lance Armstrong
The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Votes: 4 Bryan Procter
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. Votes: 4 Will Rogers
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. Votes: 3 William C. Bryant
I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. Votes: 3 George Soros
The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule. Votes: 4 Philippe Kahn
I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only useful to a particular company or person: for example, the software immediately behind a web site's user interface. But the vast majority of software is actually pretty generic. Votes: 3 Brian Behlendorf
My ultimate dream is for the Irvine Ranch to be known and celebrated as much for the outstanding communities we've planned and built as it is for what is not developed. The beneficiary being the 50,000 acres of undeveloped land that is now permanently preserved and conserved as Open Space and parklands. Votes: 3 Donald Bren
A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album. Votes: 3 J. D. Souther
What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. Votes: 1 Henry Miller
A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity. Votes: 4 Dan Rather
I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love. Votes: 4 Tatum O'Neal
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges... Votes: 4 George Washington
Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans. Votes: 3 Michelle Trachtenberg
I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors. Votes: 4 Joel Osteen
Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water. Votes: 3 Will Steger
As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom took us all the time to the ocean, so I grew up doing open-water swimming in the Atlantic. Votes: 1 Alice Dreger
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind. Votes: 4 Vernon Howard
That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think. Votes: 6 Walter Salles
I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with. Votes: 4 Nick Cave
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. Votes: 2 Carl Sandburg
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. Votes: 3 Deepak Chopra
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. Votes: 4 William Feather
My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do. Votes: 1 Ani DiFranco
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. Votes: 1 Richard Dawkins
At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years. Votes: 1 Jenny McCarthy
We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning. Votes: 3 Clayton Christensen
If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties. Votes: 4 Dick Spring