“When you follow your bliss…doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else.”
― Joseph Campbell
This morning I had fun reading quotes about doors opening and closing that have been written for centuries. I wanted to share a few more with you.
In the book Don Quixote, published in 1605, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra wrote: “Where one door shuts, another opens.”
Alexander Graham Bell wrote: “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
Helen Keller, who dedicated her autobiography to Bell for his work with the deaf and mute community has a similar quote to his attributed to her.
Mother Teresa said, “There is no key to happiness; the door is always open.”
And the great comedian Milton Berle had some words of wisdom to share, “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
Rumi’s timeless words never fail to touch me deeply: “You suppose that you are the lock on the door. But you are the key that opens it.
And finally some insight from Coco Chanel: “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
