Doorways Quotes - Page 9

• In moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his glamour fall away, and his wings were like sheets of fire sweeping the black of the heavens. He moved at speed, onward toward another human city to find another doorway bitter with the devil's magic, and after that another, until all bore the black handprint....Once all the doors were marked, the end would begin. And it would begin with fire.

  Laini Taylor

  Fall, Cities, Wings

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

  Philip Yancey

  Opposites, Grace, Holiness

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• The doorway to success swings outward not inward.

  Robin Sharma

  Swings, Inward

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.100, Jaico Publishing House

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• The doorway to success cannot be opened with a key, but rather a combination

  Daniel R. Fitzpatrick

  Success, Congratulations, Keys

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• For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Dream, Adventure

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• The expectation is this low, gravelly voice for John, but I went through his early recordings and there were songs in there where the voice was so different, I wasn't even sure if it was him singing, ... So it was interesting to me that we would see him develop the Man in Black sound. I thought it was really important that his voice change as his persona slowly solidified. The music was really the doorway into the character.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Song, Character, Men

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• I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Frowning, Heroic, Hell

  "Liu Xiaobo: China's Poet-Dissident" by Suzanne Nossel, www.politico.com. December 28, 2017.

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• Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “It’s biannual,” said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Voice, Infernal Devices

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Opportunity, Done, Behind You

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• She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.

  Rob Thomas

  Happiness, Thinking

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• Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Anxiety, Sorrow, Each New Day

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• She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Eye, Sky, World

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• I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Book, Bored, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.

  Marge Piercy

  Character, Mind, Emotion

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• The wailing of broken hearts
  is the doorway to God.

  Rumi

  Heart, Broken, Wailing

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• I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.

  Andy Summers

  Photography, People, Matter

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• Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Love You, Heart, Safe

  Agapi Stassinopoulos (2007). “Gods and Goddesses in Love: Making the Myth a Reality for You”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Success is not a doorway, it's a stairway.

  Dottie Walters

  Stairways

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• The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Exercise, Other Worlds

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• Success is a staircase, not a doorway.

  Dottie Walters

  Fitness, Baby, Weight Loss

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• I am stressed because once I am flattened out so thin to be able to slide under a doorway, I may never be able to ever be unflattened so I could be regular sized again.

  Bob Saget

  Stressed, May, Able

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• [He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.

  Hillary Jordan

  Soul, Wicked, Devil

  Hillary Jordan (2008). “Mudbound”, p.228, Random House

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• In your eyes
  the light the heat
  in your eyes
  I am complete
  in your eyes
  I see the doorway to a thousand churches
  in your eyes
  the resolution of all the fruitless searches
  in your eyes
  I see the light and the heat
  in your eyes
  oh, I want to be that complete
  I want to touch the light,
  the heat I see in your eyes

  Peter Gabriel

  Song, Eye, Light

  Song: In Your Eyes

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• They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Wall, Heart

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• God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.

  Martin Laird

  Taken, Humanity, Bruises

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