“I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.”
“When God closes one door, He slams another in your face”
Source: The Other Side of the Story
“When God closes a door, he opens a window, but it's up to you to find it.”
“A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.”
Se me abre una puerta, entro y me hallo con cien puertas cerradas.
Voces (1943)
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 13, “The Nest Builders” (p. 405).
“Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.”
Familles, je vous hais! foyers clos; portes refermées; possessions jalouses du bonheur.
Les Nourritures Terrestres (1897), book IV
