“You have to come to your closed doors before you’ll ever get to your open doors.”
Source: I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life
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Joel Osteen 65
American televangelist and author 1963Related quotes
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Open your doors and look abroad.”
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The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)
Context: Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?
I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds.
Open your doors and look abroad.
From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before.
In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.
“You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.”
"The Gift of Water" Ch. 18 : The Three Fish, p. 200
The Essential Rumi (1995)
Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999), p. 54
“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)
“Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
Variant: A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
Source: Les Misérables