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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.


Robert Louis Stevenson

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"A mousie squealing in a trap
Woke me from my morning nap.
Wasn...
HENRY N. BEARD To dream, close your eyes and keep your mind wide open.
SIMEON Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
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TERRY BROOKS Open your gate of mercy for another & providence shall cause many more gates of mercies to be opened...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Dare to follow your own paths.
Dare to be yourself.
Dare to be different.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open
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FRANCINE PASCAL No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampu...
JAMES BLAYLOCK Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
VICTORIA ABRIL Seize every opportunity you have to learn. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and seize life. Don’t...
RICHIE SAMBORA Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can'...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Keep your eyes open, Fireheart. Keep your ears pricked. Keep looking behind you. Because one day I'l...
ERIN HUNTER Keep your eyes and your mind open. Don’t be blinded by filters like fear, uncertainty, pessimism a...
CARLOS WALLACE When change is brewing in your life, open your eyes, and if they are already open, open them wider.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO If you want to achieve your goal, keep your head up, eyes open, never stop moving and destroy all ob...
KISHAN S CHAUHAN Do not cry for anyone who walks out of your life. Be thankful for the people who sticks to your side...
DOMONIC GORDINE Keep your eyes open for deer wandering into your headlights, otherwise, you will become the deer in ...
ANDREW WORKMAN I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
LAURENCE STERNE Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
SHORT QUOTES Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE

(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them...
GERMANY KENT Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.
TERRY PRATCHETT The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood.
WILL CHRISTOPHER BAER Beauty exists, even in unlikely places. The key isn't to open your eyes but to open your heart.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep y...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Open your eyes
Open your ears
Open your mind
Open your heart
They are your porta...
LISA CYPERS KAMEN Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
BOB MARLEY you make your own adventure in life. And I truly believe that if you open your eyes to your surround...
BETHANY HAMILTON In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning.
CARL SANDBURG It's time to open your eyes, and notice.You are almost there, DON'T let YOUR pain and YOUR struggles...
PHILIP T. M. Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ...
GERMANY KENT Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I alway...
JANE BIRKIN Keep waving someone who has closed his eyes only when you understand the fact that you are only exha...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his tr...
JOSHUA COHEN The key to a healthy marriage is to keep your eyes wide open before you wed and half-closed thereaft...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Don’t settle for living mediocre. Focus on all the positive and embrace it. Ignore the negative an...
GERMANY KENT Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.
ROY T. BENNETT The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
BOB MARLEY Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I ha...
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
CARL SANDBURG In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
CARL SANDBERG In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
CARL SANDBURG Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can...
RUMI The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Dream your dreams with your eyes closed, but live your dreams with your eyes open.
ERIC COLLIER The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk t...
MICHAEL MORPURGO You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.
JOSEMARíA ESCRIVá Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could me...
ROY T. BENNETT The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth.
SHANNON L. ALDER A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one
MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or ci...
DAN MILLMAN Life is not about who you know, but rather about who knows you & what you stand for.

AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN The moment your vision fixes [on men/women], the worldly life arises. This world is not worth seeing...
DADA BHAGWAN I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman w...
SCOTT SPENCER Keep people in your life who light your flame, rotten apple's spoil the rest.
EKOW JONAH I've fallen for your eyes, but they don't know me yet
ED SHEERAN Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO There are three secrets to success: The first is "Keep your eyes and ears open." The second is "Don'...
UNKNOWN Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuf...
DR. SEUSS One Of The Best Attributes Of Successful People Is The Power Of Observation. Keep Your Eyes & Ears, ...
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE Always keep one foot in the past, your head in the present, and your eyes to the future.
JOHN SMITH "Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire.Here's what would be pitiful,if your in...
ROBERT COLLIER The human race has come such a long way in such a short time and every day I wake I feel blessed tha...
TERRY LANDER VISUALIZE THE GOAL WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED AND ACHIEVE THE GOAL WITH YOUR EYES OPEN !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream toge...
SOURCE UNKNOWN This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
HERB BROOKS If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes an...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
LEONARDO DA VINCI Life shows you a lot. If you open your eyes and take a look!
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER Always be thankful to your shadow, it keeps your darker part out.
NEHA KOTHARI Watch your dreams and watch our friends. Take time and watch your friend again with sharpened eyes. ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Being a friend to your child is the best gift you give to your child.
JONATHAN CHEN If people do not look after their hearts they will soon see a flag of submission and the fight will ...
GARY F EVANS... Desire is the wind in your sails more than it is your destination, so keep your sails wide open, and...
ZENSHINE I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are s...
CAT DEELEY Dreams can only be seen with open eyes, what you see while you asleep are nightmares.
AMIT KALANTRI God Himself even "forgets" the wickedness committed by those whom He has forgiven. That's why it is ...
JAMES C. DOBSON Children close their ears to advice but open their eyes to example. To inculcate good habits in chil...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Your eyes are open but your mind is blind.
SEAN CROSBY Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF But, I've learned, as we all must, that adults are jerks too. At least some of them. And that's why ...
CLINTON KELLY To witness miracles unfold in your experience, count your blessings and be thankful. Perceived small...
T.F. HODGE The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some hea...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or de...
JILL HENNESSY He's one of those kids. You know when a kid's got talent, but a lot of times you see 'em struggle wi...
BRIAN SCHNEIDER How life goes in bad directions when your heart is asleep.
ROBERT GOOLRICK Keep your heart and mind open to allow things to come in.
DEBASISH MRIDHA To be Thankful to someone who has helped change your life for ever is a small consolation for what t...
GARY F EVANS...

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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Wrung hands;
and silence;
and a lo...
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunit...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No baggage - there was the secret of existence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere an...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a milli...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to pr...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says n...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fi...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To the Hesitating Purchaser:

"If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Noh, tead, abielu on nagu surm, see jõuab kord kõigile kätte," ütles Dick alistuvalt.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it
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