Doorways Quotes - Page 8

• In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

  Adyashanti

  Yoga, Mean, Meditation

  Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.23, Sounds True

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• I believe confidence is all about being positive concerning what you can do -- and not worrying over what you can't do. A confident person is open to learning, because she knows that her confidence allows her to walk through life's doorways, eager to discover what waits on the other side. She knows that every new unknown is a chance to learn more about herself and unleash her abilities.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Worry, Waiting

  Joyce Meyer (2006). “The Confident Woman: Start Living Boldly and Without Fear”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And again I felt that emptiness rise up, but pushed it away. Still, I lingered there, in the doorway, memorizing the noise. The moment. Tucking it away out of sight, to be remembered when I needed it most.

  Sarah Dessen

  Real, Sight, Leaving

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• Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Angel, Once Upon A Time

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

  David Mitchell

  Earth, Clubs, Streets

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.75, Random House

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• What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years, not since high school. Once it was a shaming thing to say, and crushing to have it said about you, by a man. It implied oddness, deformity, sexual malfunction. I go to the living room doorway. “I’m not mad because I’m a woman,” I say. “I’m mad because you’re an asshole.

  Margaret Atwood

  Crush, School, Men

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions

  Anne Rice

  Heaven, Library, Answers

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• pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence

  Frida Kahlo

  Pain, Struggle, Revolutionary

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• It was a perfectly normal May Day, but Sophie was scared of that too. And when a young man in a fantastical blue-and-silver costume spotted Sophie and decided to accost her as well, Sophie shrank into a shop doorway and tried to hide. The young man looked at her in surprise. "It's all right, you little gray mouse," he said laughing rather pityingly. "I only want to buy you a drink. Don't look so scared.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Men, Perfectly Normal, Blue

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• You can plan for things, work towards them for years, and yet they never materialize. Or you can just happen to be in the right place at the right moment, and everything falls into place. If you want to believe in something like Fate, she's a capricious character. Sometimes she stand there blocking the doorway you were born to pass through, and sometimes she takes you by the hand and leads you through the minute you poke your nose out. And the stars gaze down and keep their counsel.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Stars, Block, Believe

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2012). “Little Star: A Novel”, p.259, Macmillan

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• Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved.

  J. K. Rowling

  White, Brain, Body

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• The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

  Donald Miller

  Character, Stories, Care

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.104, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do you know him well?" I ask.I am too curious; I always have been. "Everyone knows Four," she says. "We were initiates together.I was bad at fighting,so he taught me every night after everyone was asleep." She scratches the back of her neck, her expression suddenly serious. "Nice of him." She gets up and stands behind the members sitting in the doorway. In a second, her serious expression is gone,but I still feel rattled by what she said, half confused by the idea of Four being "nice" and half wanting to punch her for no apparent reason.

  Veronica Roth

  Confused, Nice, Fighting

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• ―You realize I can hear you without the annoying intercom. Cookie and I both leaned forward and looked at each other through the doorway. ―But this is more fun, I said. ―More Star Trekkie.

  Darynda Jones

  Stars, Fun, Cookies

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.165, Macmillan

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• Gansey appeared beside Blue in the doorway. He shook his empty bottle at her. "Fair trade," he told her in a way that indicated he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage entirely so that he could tell Blue that he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage so that she could tell him well done with your carbon footprint and all that jazz. Blue said, "Better recycle that bottle.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Coffee, Blue, Carbon Footprint

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.97, Scholastic Inc.

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• Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.

  Ilchi Lee

  Choices, Creative, States

  Ilchi Lee (2005). “Human Technology: A Toolkit for Authentic Living”, p.112, Healing Society

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• He carried a pipe in his left hand, and as he examined Will at his leisure, he exhaled sending a cloud of sweet-smelling, cough-induced smoke. 'Finally broke down and admitted you're in love with me, have you?'He inquired of Will. 'I do enjoy these suprise midnight declarations.' He leaned against the doorway and waved a languid ringed hand. "Go along, have at it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sweet, Clouds, Hands

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• She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was Clarissa one remembered. Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was however; there she was.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Clever, People

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.177, Wordsworth Editions

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• The man walked past me and stopped, observing the blood running down my neck. "Your injury. Let us tend to it." He looked out through the open doorway and silently gestured to someone out there. "Our world," he said, "is far more advanced than yours. For reasons you'll understand shortly." A thin, bony, naked woman entered the room, carrying two small, white kittens. She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. "There," said the large man. "The kittens will make your sad go away.

  David Wong

  Running, Cat, Past

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• Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.' 'Good night,' I said, and rolled onto my side. 'There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Good Night, Mother, Mistake

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.256, Penguin

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• Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.

  Robert Bly

  Grief, Men, Feelings

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• You control the doorway to your mind.

  Joel Osteen

  Mind

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• There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in. And, until we get some of God's people right, we cannot hope to get sinners regenerated. Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.

  Mordecai Ham

  Christian, Doors, Hands

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• Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Husband, Hands, Shadow

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• The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation, the most selfish and ungrateful in their cocoons, the most unjust of employers and the most overweening of snobs. The love of Christ embraces all without exception.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Selfish, Gay

  Brennan Manning (2009). “The Furious Longing of God”, p.60, David C Cook

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