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.
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
I live in South Africa. I'm proud to live there. I've always said I want to be a comedian from South Africa in the world. I will stay in places for a bit here and there and pop into New York for a while, maybe stay in London for a year, but my home will always be South Africa. I enjoy it too much.
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?
It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.
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