Closing Doors Quotes

• It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Moving Forward, Inspiration

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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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• 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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  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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• close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, I Hate You

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• Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Positive, Adversity, Opportunity

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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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• 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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• Democracies die behind closed doors.

  Damon Keith

  Peace, Ubuntu, Doors

  "Judge Damon J. Keith – Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 30, 2015.

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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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• Nothing in life has happened to you, it's happened FOR You!

  Joel Osteen

  Closed Doors, Happened

  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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• When one door closes, another one opens.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Tattoo, Retirement, Doors

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

  Percy Ross

  Clever, Humorous, Doors

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• Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Doors, Library, Closed Doors

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• Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

  Andre Gide

  Jealousy, Hate, Home

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• A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

  Antonio Porchia

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Persistence

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.

  Bob Goff

  Thinking, Doors, Want

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Power, as it is, has a whole apparatus operating that goes about cutting down, closing doors, so that protests, exercises, platforms, and organizations, such as the Zapatistas, can't grow further in the barrio.

  Bocafloja

  Cutting, Exercise, Organization

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Cat, Doors, Practice

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• We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.

  Bill Bryson

  Doors, Years, Four

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.319, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.

  Alan Lightman

  Life, Autumn, Doors

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