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

topic: Life, Inspiration, Past, Zahir, Closing Doors

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Life Wisdom, Job Opportunities

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

- Joel Osteen

topic: Closing Doors, Closed Doors

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

- Helen Keller

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

topic: Doors, Long, Looks, Daily Work, Always Happy

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

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Happiness, I Hate You, Incapacity, Broken Hearted

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

topic: Positive, Adversity, Opportunity, Closing Up, Life Opportunity

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

- Bonnie McFarlane

topic: Break Up, Encouraging, Broken Heart, Live In The Now, Life Opportunity

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Moving, Just Keep Moving, Just Keep Moving Forward

Democracies die behind closed doors.

- Damon Keith

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

topic: Peace, Doors, Democracy, Misinformation, Closing Doors

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

- Percy Ross

topic: Clever, Humorous, Doors, Closed Mind, Closing Doors

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

- Barbara Tuchman

topic: Doors, Library, Closed Doors, Closing Doors

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

- Andre Gide

topic: Jealousy, Hate, Home, Closing Doors, Closed Doors

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

- Antonio Porchia

source: "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

topic: Stay Strong, Doors, Hundred, Closing Doors, Closed Doors

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

topic: Thinking, Doors, Want, Closing Doors

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

topic: Cutting, Exercise, Organization, Closing Doors, Cutting Down

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

topic: Cat, Doors, Practice, Closing Doors

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

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

topic: Doors, Years, Four, Flukes, Closing Doors

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

topic: Life, Autumn, Doors, Closing Doors, Snowfall