“Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise”

“There is how we
were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing
which doors to open, and which to close.”

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”

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

“When one door is closed, many more is open.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

“This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.”

“When one door closes, another opens… into another room, another space, other happenings. There are many doors to open and close in our lives. Some doors we leave ajar, where we hope and plan to return. Some doors are slammed shut decisively—"No more of that!" Some are closed regretfully, softly—"It was good, but it is over." Departures entail arrivals somewhere else. Closing a door, leaving it behind, means opening onto new vistas and ventures, new possibilities, new incentives.”

“When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.”

“The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.”