"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."
"We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked."
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Source: How they succeeded: life stories of successful men told by themselves. Book by Orison Swett Marden (Chapter 2), 1901.
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