Open Your Eyes Quotes

“Don’t turn your face away.
Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know.
Open your eyes to the truth. It’s all around you.
Don’t deny what the eyes to your soul have revealed to you.

Now that you know, you cannot feign ignorance.
Now that you’re aware of the problem, you cannot pretend you don’t care.
To be concerned is to be human.
To act is to care.”
― Vashti Quiroz-Vega

“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? While the soul, after all, is only a window, and the opening of the window no more difficult than the wakening from a little sleep.”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“I understand we all have our differences. But while learning about history I've read about white people coming together, Jews coming together, Spanish coming together, different cultures and religions understanding and coming together despite their differences. Slavery was never something that shocked me. What shocks me is how black people have not yet overcome the odds and we're such strong smart people. Why we can't just stand together?”
― Jonathan Anthony Burkett

“We all have a certain knowledge about how the universe works. And when someone comes along and challenges that knowledge, we don’t know how to deal with it. We aren’t hardwired that way. It’s difficult to question everything you’ve ever thought to be true. So, like I said, it’s not your fault. You can believe me or not, but whichever you choose, you’re the one who has to deal with the consequences. So make your decision wisely, grasshopper,”
― Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right

“Open your eyes, mind and heart - and then (only then) you will see”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“When change is brewing in your life, open your eyes, and if they are already open, open them wider.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Diana was better qualified than anyone to know that you don't just marry a man, you marry his family.”
― Tina Brown, The Diana Chronicles

“When God opens your eyes, do not deny what you see on the other side. It is always a great privilege to be shown the signs, even if they may not be what you want.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“If we fear to open our eyes during the day time, we will complain that life has nothing to offer except darkness.”
― Debasish Mridha

“The morning sunlight filters through my eyelids. It's a less than remarkable thought.”
― Dave Cenker, Second Chance

“Bast looked at him incredulously."The whole world is burning down,"he said."Open your eyes.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear

“I do my best to put blinders one, but it's impossible to ignore what is happening around me.”
― Dave Cenker, Second Chance

“Natural phenomena teach us so much if we open ourselves to their various interpretations.”
― Dave Cenker, Second Chance

“Everything is revealed beforehand, but only to those with eyes to see.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“In 1978, [sociologist Albert] Bergesen used Durkheim to illuminate the madness that erupted in Beijing in May 1966, when Mao Zedong began warning about the rising threat of infiltration by pro-capitalist enemies. Zealous college students responded by forming the Red Guards to find and punish enemies of the revolution. Universities across the country were shut down for several years. During those years, the Red Guards rooted out any trace they could find- or imagine- of capitalism, foreign influence, or bourgeois values. In practice, this meant that anyone who was successful or accomplished was suspect, and many professors, intellectuals, and campus administrators were imprisoned or murdered...
Over the next few years, tens of millions were persecuted, and hundreds of thousands were murdered.
How could such an orgy of self-destruction have happened? Bergesen notes that there are three features common to most political witch hunts: they arise very quickly, they involve charges of crimes against the collective, and the offenses that lead to charges are often trivial or fabricated.”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

“There is nothing you lack and all you will find; we are one at the heart - just divided by mind. Don't let life pass you by.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“I am with you always. You just have to find me by opening your inner eyes and closing your egocentric mind.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Amka, fumbua macho, uujue ukweli.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Wake up, open your eyes, know the truth.”
― Enock Maregesi

“There are times I want to rebel against having been created a woman. When you are born a girl, you are taught how to cook and clean, wash dirty clothes, mend old socks, make butter and cheese, and feed babies. Some women are also taught the art of love and making themselves attractive to men. But that’s about it. Nobody gives women books to open their eyes.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Learn to discern.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“The handwriting on the wall is useless unless you read it.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others