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Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.

Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.
– Matshona Dhliwayo

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  2. Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  3. What the wise see eyes closed is greater than what the ignorant see both eyes open. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  4. Closed books are like closed eyes-”you must open them to see anything. – Richelle E Goodrich
  5. You must love when your eyes are closed and love when your eyes are open. Love endlessly. – Debasish Mridha
  6. Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends.Discerning the two is a life’s work. – David Petersen
  7. Today’s enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today’s friends can be tomorrow’s enemies. – Suzy Kassem
  8. You can always make enemies of your friends,’ said Sumael. ‘Making friends of your enemies is harder labor. – Joe Abercrombie
  9. Love is when you daydream about the other with open eyes and fantasize about with other even with closed eyes. – Shubham Raj
  10. Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed…living is what you do with that dream once you open your eyes! – Nathan Parks
  11. We cannot see the beauty of life with our eyes closed. Only when we cry with our eyes open can we begin to shed tears of joy. – Tehya Sky
  12. Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images. – Ishmael Beah
  13. Love yourself enough to open your eyes, and open your eyes enough to love yourself. – Jay Woodman
  14. It’s all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends? – Willa Cather
  15. The enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful. – James D S
  16. When you look in the mirror and see your reflection, your eyes are open; when you look in the mirror and see God, your soul is open. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  17. Love lost is better than hate found. True criticism is better than false praise. Genuine enemies are better than counterfeit friends. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  18. Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  19. If you open your mind more than you open your mouth, you will open your world more than you open your doubt. – Robert J Braathe
  20. You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime. – Ziad K Abdelnour
  21. You’ll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
  22. Become dangerously open to all points of view. Are you dangerously open, or safely closed? – Bryant McGill
  23. Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, cherish God. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  24. Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, treasure God. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  25. In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  26. One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  27. Acquaintances are numerous. Friends are few. Enemies many. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  28. Before marriage keep your eyes wide open, after marriage keep them half closed. – Ivana Trump
  29. We kiss with our eyes closed but our senses open, infusing the spaces between with the elements of the other. – AJ Compton
  30. My eyes were closed, they’re open now – Damien Rice
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  32. Knock on the sky’s door, and stars will open it; knock on the universe’s door, and love will open it. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  33. Friends never turn as enemies. If they did, they were never your friends at all. – Hark Herald Sarmiento
  34. It’s one thing when you lose a friend or when your friends become enemies, but it’s the worst when friends become strangers, – Hayley Williams
  35. The Bible is useful because it opens our eyes, and because it’s highly impractical to walk through life with our eyes closed. – Peter J Leithart
  36. Today you closed your eyes on violence, tomorrow, the violence will close your eyes on you. – VicDo
  37. The only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark, to walk in it with eyes wide open, to be a part of it. To keep your enemies close. – CJ Roberts
  38. [God] says to pray for our enemies. How many of us have ever spent time praying for our enemies? – Billy Graham
  39. You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  40. Light only benefits one whose eyes are open. – Matshona Dhliwayo

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