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Sayings about Doors

Whoever keeps his door locked all the time longs for it to be broken down. ~ Chinese Proverb

It's a big wind that blows on small doors. ~ French Proverb

Never open a door that you can't lock again. ~ Iranian Proverbs

It is useless to knock at the door of a deaf man. ~ Greek Proverbs

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When one door shuts, another opens. ~ Traditional Proverb

We let him in, and now he shows us the door. ~ Berber Proverb

He who wants to tell the truth will always stand before closed doors. ~ Danish Proverbs

While keeping a tiger from the front door, the wolf comes in at the back. ~ Chinese Proverb

Follow the saint no further than his doorstep. ~ Egyptian Proverbs

The door of success is marked 'push' and 'pull.' ~ Yiddish Proverb

Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors. ~ Swedish Proverbs

Believe the liar up to the door of his house and no further than that. ~ Egyptian Proverb

The man whose conscience is clear will never fear a knock on the door at midnight. ~ Chinese Proverb

At death's door a man will beg for the fever. ~ Armenian Proverbs

When you have three daughters, you sleep with the door open. ~ Korean Proverb

Who stands by the door of his house is not yet gone away. ~ Finnish Proverbs

He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him. ~ Dutch Proverb

Many open a door to shut a window. ~ Dutch Proverb

The door to virtue is heavy and hard to open. ~ Chinese Proverb

Insects do not nest in a busy door-hinge. ~ Chinese Proverb

Nobles and dogs leave the door open. ~ German Proverbs

The best kind of closed door is the one you can leave unlocked. ~ Chinese Proverb

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. ~ Chinese Proverb

When hard work goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window. ~ Dutch Proverb

Lock your door rather than accuse your neighbor. ~ Lebanese Proverb

When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb

If you have never done anything evil, you should not be worrying about devils knocking at your door. ~ Chinese Proverb

Slander piles itself before the door of a widow. ~ Chinese Proverb

To contradict means sometimes to knock at the door to see if anyone is at home. ~ French Proverb

Friends sleep when misfortune knocks on the door. ~ Polish Proverbs

Kind words will unlock an iron door. ~ Kurdish Proverb

The back of one door is the face of another. ~ Traditional Proverb

Shut The Front Door Sayings

It is no fun to guard a house with two doors. ~ Spanish Proverbs

The doorstep of the palace is very slippery. ~ Polish Proverb

The ear is only a door. ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)

The last shuts the door. ~ German Proverb

If you make yourself into a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you. ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)

A doorstep is the highest of all mountains. ~ Slovenian Proverb

Silence is the door of consent. ~ Berber Proverb

If you want to keep camels, have a big enough door. ~ Afghan Proverb

Beware of the door with too many keys. ~ Portuguese Proverb

You can lock your door from a thief, but not from a damned liar. ~ Virgin Islander Proverb

A creaking door hangs long on its hinges. ~ Romanian Proverbs

He who would make a golden door must add a nail to it daily. ~ German Proverbs

Every door may be shut but death's door. ~ Italian Proverb

The mouth is the door of evil. ~ Japanese Proverb

Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot. ~ Irish Proverb

Don't lock the stable door after the horse is stolen. ~ English Proverb

Patience can break through iron doors. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb

When fortune knocks open the door. ~ German Proverb

Earth is like a prison: we all go in through the same door, but we stay in different cells. ~ Bantu Proverb

God's help is nearer than the door. ~ Irish Proverb

The open door invites the thief. ~ Dutch Proverb

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. ~ Traditional Proverb

The doorway to charity is difficult to open and difficult to close. ~ Chinese Proverb

When God shuts one door, He opens another. ~ Arabian Proverb

Misfortune only comes in when the door is open. ~ Chinese Proverb

The greatest step is out the door. ~ German Proverb

Unless you call out, who will open the door? ~ Ethiopian Proverb

The place of an uninvited guest is behind the door. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb

Once you have locked your door you are the emperor in your own domain. ~ Mongolian Proverbs

Quotations about Doors

Where one door closes, another opens. ~ Don Quijote

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ~ Confucius Quotes

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors. ~ Jim Morrison

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. ~ William Blake

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. ~Joseph Campbell

Opportunity does not knock; it presents itself when you beat down the door. ~ Kyle Chandler

Death is a door life opens. ~ Adela Rogers St. Johns

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. ~ Walt Disney Quotes

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

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~ Alexander Graham Bell

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you. ~ Jim Morrison

God enters by a private door into every individual. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Doorman — a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip. ~ Dorothy Kilgallen

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. ~ George Washington Carver

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open. ~ Author Unknown

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room. ~ Elizabeth Bibesco

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through. ~ Jesse Jackson

Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all. ~ George Eliot

Prayer is the key that opens the door to all that is good in life. ~ Author Unknown

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. ~ Meister Eckhart

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you. ~ Author Unknown

You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. ~ Maxwell Maltz

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life,. ~ Mark Twain Quotes

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~ Flora Whittemore

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. ~ Elizabeth Taylor

Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. ~ Albert Camus Quotes

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door. ~ Vernon Howard

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. ~ Rosie Perez

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye. ~ Howard Hendricks

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee. ~ Akhenaton

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. ~ Ivan Turgenev

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ~ John Barrymore

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. ~ Torquato Tasso

Don't ever slam a door; you might want to go back. ~ Don Herold

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open. ~ Thomas Fuller

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ~ Deepak Chopra

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. ~ Clarence Thomas

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. ~ Clara Barton

Reality is a sliding door. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door. ~ Rufus Sewell

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. ~ Jim Rohn

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it. ~ Baltasar Gracian

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. ~ Jesus Christ

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ~ Milton Berle

Good clothes open all doors. ~ Thomas Fuller

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ~ Dr. Laura Schlessinger

The doors of wisdom are never shut. ~ Benjamin Franklin Quotes

If a door slams shut it means that God is pointing to an open door further on down. ~ Anna Delaney Peale

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door…. You might not be home. ~ Jinger Heath

Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go. ~ Catherine Marshall

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Big doors swing on little hinges. ~ W. Clement Stone

He, who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~ Victor Hugo Quotes

All doors open to courtesy. ~ Thomas Fuller

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Our abilities and ambitions count for little, unless the door of opportunity is open to us. ~ Nicias Ballard Cooksey

You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready. ~ Bruno Mars

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. ~ Emily Dickinson

The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing. ~ Author Unknown

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared. ~ Author Unknown

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter. ~ B.C. Forbes

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire. ~ Horace

We must open the doors of opportunity. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes. ~ Jan Myrdal

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. ~ Charles L. Allen

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase. ~ Dottie Walters

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see. ~ Omar Khayyam

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Sometimes the thingsyoureallywant
sneak in the backdoor.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When onedoorcloses, anotheropens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to setsomeone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado

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When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore

God enters by a private door into each individual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge of what is, does not open
the door directly to what should be.
- Albert Einstein

Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7

If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle

Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man can.. make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have become my own version of an optimist.
If I can't make it through one door,
I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door.
Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Reality is a sliding door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mr green dumps. Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)

It's YOUR time - it's YOUR life -
YOU get to choose how you use it. T
here is no way that your life is 'supposed' to be.
Your parents had their vision for your life.
Your boss, your spouse, your church, your friends,
and even the family next door have their ideas
of how you should live your life.
What about YOUR vision for your life?
What do YOU want?
YES, it matters what you want.
YES you can have what you want.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you follow your bliss.. doors will open
where you would not have thought there would be doors,
and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver

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Stress is always waiting
just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Home is our sanctuary, where we:
relax into being ourselves,
play with our inner child,
paint the walls green and pink,
dig in the dirt,
grow something,
love somebody else,
love ourselves even more,
snuggle with a warm blanket on a Sunday afternoon,
hang 'go away' on the door whenever we want,
clean and tidy often.. or never,
launch from and return to,
are truly ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers,
but for powers equal to our tasks,
to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door
of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
- Helen Keller

I feel the same way about solitude as some people
feel about the blessing of the church.
It's the light of grace for me.
I never close my door behind me without the awareness
that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.
- Peter Hoeg

If the mind wants to comprehend reality,
it will have to come out of the past and the future.
But coming out of the past and the future,
it is no longer the mind at all.
Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world
that the door to reality is no-mind.
- Osho

I recognize this in my writing process.
A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights.
I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits.
When I set my keys in the place
I, with practice, always set my keys..
I do not lose them.
In many instances an ordered external structure
can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered,
creative and unbounded inner structure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips

If you have been divorced, you know it hurts -
especially if your marriage had lasted many years.
Whatever the circumstances of your relationship,
and whatever the nature of its ending,
there is always grief and regret -
perhaps regret over the ending,
or perhaps regret over not ending the relationship sooner -
or perhaps both.
Nonetheless, move past the grief and regret.
No matter how painful, divorce, like all endings,
opens the door to new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor

When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
- Flora Whittemore

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

Stay Alert, and doors will open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room,
remember, never to say that you are alone,
for you are not alone, but God is within,
and your genius is within.
- Epictetus

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde

When you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living.
When you can see that, you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

It is difficult for the common good to prevail
against the intense concentration
of those who have a special interest,
especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
- Jimmy Carter

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit
which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men,
in all lands, everywhere.
Destroy this spirit and you have planted
the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
- Abraham Lincoln

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha

May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

You don't have the power to make life 'fair,'
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything.. but happy.
- Anonymous

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha

A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell

How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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