Closing Quotes - Page 9

• The white moth to the closing vine,
  The bee to the open clover,
  And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood
  Ever the wide world over.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Blood, White

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• In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Home, Sunset

  Letter announcing Alzheimer's diagnosis, November 5, 1994.

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• The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.

  David Miliband

  Change, Opportunity, Climate

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• Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.

  Jan Myrdal

  Travel, Eye, Vacation

  Jan Myrdal (1980). “The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili Through Sinkiang and Kansu”, Orion

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• Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.

  David Deida

  Spiritual, Money, Stress

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again. And never judge anything of the past from the new perspective that is arriving, because the new is new, incomparably new and the old was right in its own context, and the new is right in its own context.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Perspective, Judging

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• What's encouraging about meditation is that, even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Ignorance, Meditation Practice

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.

  Betty Friedan

  Doors, Justice, Diversity

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.

  Amy Ryan

  Baby, Doors, Feet

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• The window of X Factor opportunity opens up in the closing seconds of a race-you might be sprinting at the time or just hanging one, trying to get across the finish line. With a supreme act of will, you can prolong your effort, essentially fighting off the inevitable lactic acid shutdown. You'll have little time for contemplating the options: either wholeheartedly go for it, or back off. You must train your X Factor to unequivocally respond the way you want-go for it. Once the window is closed, it's closed forever.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Fighting, Opportunity, Race

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• When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover

  Michael Drayton

  Eye, Closing Up, Bed

  'Idea' (1619) sonnet 61

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• In closing, the greatest threat to peace on this earth is the arrogance of a super-power [America] that is out of control.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Stupid, Humorous, America

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• Ask: is what I'm doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice.

  Geneen Roth

  Monday, Morning, Heart

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• No matter what's happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you've been withholding it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Eye, Events, Matter

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 11, 2011

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• I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out!

  Pope Francis

  School, People, Church

  "Pope Francis’s ‘Mess’". www.nationalreview.com. August 1, 2013.

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• When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real things instead of making objects which represent ideas and closing them up in cupboards.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Real, Ideas

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• Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pride, Doors, Dust

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• Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.

  Wayne Muller

  Space, Joints, Expansion

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• Spiritual process is not about chanting a mantra or closing your eyes, spiritual process is essentially about enhancing your perception.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Eye

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• Let us remember Paul VI's words: "For the Catholic Church, no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is far away" (Homily for the closing of the Second Vatican Council, 8 December 1965). Indeed, we are a single human family that is journeying on toward unity, making the most of solidarity and dialogue among peoples in the multiplicity of differences.

  Pope Francis

  Differences, Catholic, Unity

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• God always forgives, always. But he asks that I forgive. If I don't forgive, in a certain sense I am closing the door to God's forgiveness.

  Pope Francis

  Doors, Forgiving, Certain

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• Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away.

  Wil Wheaton

  Block, Thinking, Law

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.

  Greg Kinnear

  Airports, Doors, Long

  "Good Humor Man". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. July 25, 2006.

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• In closing, to those who have closed the door on religion - I was recently asked by a non-Christian friend if I thought he was going to hell. I said, 'I hope not. It will be hard to enjoy heaven without you.' If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Believe, Doors

  "What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff?". www.esquire.com. November 18, 2009.

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• The window is closing.

  Barack Obama

  Window

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