Doors Quotes

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  There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

  Jim Morrison

  Knowledge, Perception, Doorways

  Tagline to "The Doors" Documentary, 1991.

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• He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Summer, Hope, Ambition

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

  Idries Shah

  Men, Enemy, Progress

  Idries Shah (1997). “The Commanding Self”, p.81, Octagon Press Ltd

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• "There's a door," he whispered. "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think," said Rincewind.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Doe, Discworld

  "Eric (Discworld, Book 9)". Book by Terry Pratchett (p. 86), 1990.

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• Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Soul, Enemy, Pounds

  Saint Francis (de Sales), Saint Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal, Wendy M. Wright, Joseph F. Power (1988). “Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal: letters of spiritual direction”

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• We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Moving On, Moving Forward

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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• Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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• Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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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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• Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings.

  Leigh Mitchell Hodges

  Morning, Trying, World

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• Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Doe, Kicking

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• The door of the human heart, can only be opened from the inside.

  William Holman Hunt

  Love, Heart, Humans

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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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• Be an opener of doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• But...books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark corners. Some of them are balloons bobbing up through the sky: totally self-contained, and unreachable, but beautiful to watch. And some of them―the best ones―are doors.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Book, Dark

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• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Milton Berle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.

  Jane Yolen

  Fall, Hero, Stories

  Jane Yolen (2011). “Snow in Summer”, p.55, Penguin

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• Don't give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring which opens the door.

  Paulo Coelho

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Keys

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  Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

  Brooke Shields

  Inspirational, Happy, Wise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you knock on the door of opportunity, do not be surprised that it is Work who will answer.

  Brendon Burchard

  Opportunity, Answers

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• Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

  Steve Wozniak

  Work, Smart, People

  Saturday keynote speech, The Fifth HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) Conference, July 10, 2004.

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• The door to happiness opens outward.

  Soren Kierkegaard

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• This opens the door on another chapter of history.

  Walter Cronkite

  Inspiration, Humor, Chapters

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  When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, Mind, Negative

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2008). “Timeless Thoughts for Today”, p.15, Jaico Publishing House

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