Frida Kahlo
Painter
"pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence"
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Doorways
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Peter Gabriel
Musician
"Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul."
Daisaku Ikeda
Buddhist Leader, Author
"Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life."
Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine."
Deepak Chopra
Author, Speaker
"Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite."
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"Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth."
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"External silence can be the doorway to inner silence."
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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."
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"Decisions are the doorway to change."
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"The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God."
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"Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom."
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"It's not a competition, it's a doorway."
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"Every second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink."
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"The doorway to success swings outward not inward."
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"I am always safe, no matter which doorway I pass through."
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"Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall."
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"Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness."
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"I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God."
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"We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives."
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"An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went."
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