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.
The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.
The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.
You don't know why God has put that person in your path. It's not a coincidence. He's strategically lined up every person, every detail and every step of your life. Now do your part--don't miss an opportunity to do good for others.
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