“We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough”

Source: The Time Between

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American writer 1964

David Gemmell (1948–2006) British author of heroic fantasy

“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.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

We Bereaved (1929)

“With the works of charity we closed the doors of hell and open ourselves to the sky.”

John Bosco (1815–1888) Italian Roman Catholic priest, educator and writer

“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.”

Helen Nearing (1904–1995) American writer

Source: Loving and Leaving the Good Life (1992), p. 1

“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.”

Karen White (1964) American writer

Source: The Time Between

“All that we can gain in the west depends on the Entente — on the extent to which it may wish to squeeze Germany, [while in the east] there are doors that open and close, and it depends on who forces them open and how far.”

Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935) Polish politician and Prime Minister

(Probably 1918) Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003, ISBN 0375760520, p. 211.
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