Doorways Quotes

• The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Cute, Inspiring

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  There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

  Jim Morrison

  Knowledge, Doors, Perception

  Tagline to "The Doors" Documentary, 1991.

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• Any doorway that leads you to a deeper understanding of who you are is worthwhile.

  Rodney Yee

  Understanding, Worthwhile, Deeper

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• Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

  Katherine Dunn

  Stories, Intersections

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• The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Inspiration, Simple, Everyday

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• Enchanted worlds still exist because the child within us never dies. The doorways may be more obscure, but we can still seek them out. There are still noble adventures to undertake. There are still trees that speak and caverns that lead to nether realms. There will always be faeries and elves within nature because they will always be dancing in our hearts.

  Ted Andrews

  Children, Healing, Heart

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  If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "A Memorable Fancy" plate 14 (1790 - 1793). Inspired the title of Aldous Huxley's 1954 book about drug experimentation, The Doors of Perception, which in turn inspired the name of the 1960s rock group The Doors.

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• You are the doorway to the infinite.

  Adyashanti

  Infinite

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• No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

  E. B. White

  People, Childhood, Tolerance

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• We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.

  Marge Piercy

  Inspiring, Dancing, Transformation

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• Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Creativity, Mean, Groaning

  Daisaku Ikeda (1975*). “The tide toward the 21st century: addresses”

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• If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, World, Lines

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• Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There’s nowhere to go. There’s nothing else to be. There’s no destination. It’s not something to aim for in the afterlife. It’s simply the quality of this moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Afterlife, Mind, Quality

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• Mistakes are the doorway to discovery.

  Sam Horn

  Mistake, Discovery

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• Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future
  moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?

  Martha Beck

  Pain, Imagination, Joy

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• When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.

  Michelle Obama

  Badass, Opportunity, Giving

  "Why can't we celebrate women's sport without relating it to men's" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2007.

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• Decisions are the doorway to change.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Decision

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• Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

  Keith Miller

  Wisdom, Pain

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• Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mindfulness, Window, Infinite

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• You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Creativity, Mean

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• Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.

  Jack Hyles

  Love Is, Soul, Selfishness

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• Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the right direction. But don't analyze, just watch. Focus your attention within. Feel the energy of the emotion. If there is no emotion present, take your attention more deeply into the inner energy field of your body. It is the doorway into Being.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Focus, Energy, Watches

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.27, New World Library

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• Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.

  Mary Oliver

  Weed, Voice, Blue

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.46, Beacon Press

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• Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Starting, Whole Life

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.329, Faber & Faber

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