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A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging window quotes, window sayings, and window proverbs.
Famous Window Quotes
- “A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.” ~ Mavis Gallant
- “Never hesitate to open new windows in your life!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “When life closes a door, God opens a window.” ~ Paul Smith
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“Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.” ~ Karl Pilkington
- “There’s a world out there. Open a window, and it’s there.” ~ Robin Williams
- “Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.” ~ Nicholas Sparks
- “I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.” ~ Confucius
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“If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.” ~ Rumi
- “What light through yonder window breaks?” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.” ~ Angelina Jolie
- “There is a window from one heart to another heart.” ~ Rumi
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“And what is more generous than a window?” ~ Pat Schneider
- “Give me a window and I’ll stare out it.” ~ Alan Rickman
- “Open the window of your heart and let the Spirit speak” ~ Rumi
- “A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.” ~ Denis Waitley
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“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.” ~ Edith Wharton
- “Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.” ~ Ray Bradbury
- “If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.” ~ Tom Peters
- “You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.” ~ Frederick Lenz
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“I have always loved a window, especially an open one.” ~ Wendell Berry
- “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It’s almost a form of cognitive dissonance.” ~ Moby
- “Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.” ~ Brooke Shields
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“Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” ~ Herbert Hoover
- “You can’t make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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“I stare out the window and wait for spring.” ~ Rogers Hornsby
- “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- “Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.” ~ Martha Ronk
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“The Eyes are the window to your soul” ~ William Shakespeare
- “I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.” ~ Pablo Neruda
- “I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer.” ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt
- “All the windows of my heart I open to the day.” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
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“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” ~ Walt Whitman
- “Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.” ~ Lady Bird Johnson
- “There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
- “We all need to have a creative outlet – a window, a space – so we don’t lose track of ourselves.” ~ Zoketsu Norman Fischer
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“When a window closes another one opens” ~ apl.de.ap
- “I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.” ~ Tommy Cooper
- “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” ~ Sydney J. Harris
- “If the door is locked, try the window.” ~ Lynn Caine
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“I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me, And is gone.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
- “I sometimes say to people, “I am a window frame – no more. The window frame is not that important. What is important is the light that comes through the window.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
- “There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as ‘form’ to literature. It strongly defines its content.” ~ Max Beerbohm
- “Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don’t worry about my destiny.” ~ Carl Sandburg
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“A pessimist doesn’t see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Sometimes the best of gods gift’s arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.” ~ Anais Nin
- “All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching. I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.” ~ Fernando Pessoa
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“The window of heaven is what all truth seekers are trying to open.” ~ Harold Klemp
- “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.” ~ Vernon Howard
- “Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.” ~ Desmond Tutu
- “Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.” ~ Henry James
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“Good prose should be transparent, like a windowpane.” ~ George Orwell
- “An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
- “That silent gap between your thoughts is your window to the cosmic mind.” ~ Deepak Chopra
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“A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Bad weather always looks worse through a window.” ~ Tom Lehrer
- “A library doesn’t need windows. A library is a window.” ~ Stewart Brand
