Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.
Interpretation
The quote celebrates those who embrace life joyfully and authentically.
Amy Poehler's quote emphasizes the importance of surrounding oneself with individuals who approach life with enthusiasm, boldness, and genuine happiness. By likening these people to open-faced sandwiches, she suggests they are straightforward and authentic, showcasing their true selves without pretense, which is a desirable quality in friendships and relationships.
In practice
This quote would be perfect for a speech about the importance of positivity in friendships.
Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.
You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are.
We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.
Itβs very hard to have ideas. Itβs very hard to put yourself out there, itβs very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.
Education is power, it changes your whole life, it can create a life for yourself. So the more educated you are, the more you learn about what you care about, you become a more caring person. And if you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with, without denigrating or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. And you may even change their mind, or they may change yours.
Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
We must appreciate the dignity of life in all its seasons, even the path of the elderly in the twilight of their years, to work toward the day when every child, born and unborn, is welcomed to life and protected by law.
I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I remember.
How good life is when one does something good and just!
If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
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