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

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

“I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.”

“You have to come to your closed doors before you’ll ever get to your open doors.”

“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 is closed, many more is open.”

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

“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.”

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

“Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens us. All we need to do is stop pounding on the door that just closed, turn around—which puts the door behind us—and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls. The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.”