Closed Doors Quotes

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  When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Closed doors are a test of our faith. Keep moving forward, being your best, living with determination and faith. When you do, you'll see amazing changes all around you.

  Joel Osteen

  Determination, Moving Forward, Doors

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.

  Helen Keller

  Funny Love, Doors, Long

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• I believe that behind every closed door there is an open space.

  Ping Fu

  Believe, Doors, Space

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• Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Doors

  Joel Osteen (2014). “Daily Readings from Break Out!: 365 Devotions to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life”, p.439, Hachette UK

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• Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

  Billy Graham

  Disappointment, Cutting, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Sep 14, 2012

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• Closed doors simply means God is protecting us from having not the best.

  Bo Sanchez

  Mean, Doors

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• Nothing attracts me like a closed door.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Doors

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.99, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The past is a closed door.

  Margaret Atwood

  Past, Doors

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.101, Anchor

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• You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving

  "Pastor Joel Osteen On Negativity And Setbacks — And How To Turn Negative Energy Around". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 06,2013.

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• Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can't see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path...Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.

  Rumi

  Motivational, Success, Thankful

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• God can take better care of you than you could ever take of yourself. He could open doors for you that you could never open. He can close doors that will keep you out of trouble. God can give you favor everywhere that you go.

  Joyce Meyer

  Doors, Giving, Care

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• Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling into the station. My bad mood evaporated. I entered the car smiling, certain that there would be more missed trains in my life, more closed doors in my face, but there would always be another train rumbling down the tracks in my direction.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Crazy, Doors, Worry

  Esmeralda Santiago (2009). “The Turkish Lover: A Memoir”, p.77, Da Capo Press

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• Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

  Dean Koontz

  Doors, Waiting, Soul

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.1597, Bantam

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• When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Break Up, Encouraging, Broken Heart

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• When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, Faith, Religious

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• What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I'm there with them.

  Dolly Parton

  Doors, People, Concern

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• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Doors

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• A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

  Percy Ross

  Clever, Humorous, Doors

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• When the truth is ugly, people try to keep it hidden, because they know if revealed, the damage it will do. So they conceal it within sturdy walls or they place it behind closed doors or they obscure it with clever disguises but truth, no matter how ugly, always emerges. And someone we care about always ends up getting hurt. And someone else will revel in their pain and that's the ugliest truth of all.

  Mary Alice

  Hurt, Wall, Clever

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• I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Doors, Behinds, Died

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• It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

  Andre Gide

  Doors, Law, Tragedy

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• Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.

  Damon Keith

  Government, Doors, People

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• You have to come to your closed doors before you come to your open doors

  Joel Osteen

  Moving Forward, Doors, Keep Moving

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