A Quote by Lionel Shriver
The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.
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Be blessed. And just as you are transforming your own life, may you transform the lives of those around you. When they ask, do not forget to give. When they knock at your door, be sure to open it. When they lose something and come to you, do whatever you can to help them find what they have lost. First, though, ask; knock at the door and find what is missing in your life. A hunter always knows what to expect - eat or be eaten.
Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn’t even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself.
The purpose of life is joy! When you're in joy, you attract the highest and best in every area of your life. Joy increases to the exact degree that you deliberately increase your good thoughts, good words, and good actions. I've found in my life that the easiest way to increase my joy is to religiously practice gratitude until I'm a gratitude machine!
Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
Knock on wood is a saying for good luck. I think that started when someone went to someone's door to see if someone was home. "I hope Joe's home, knock on wood!"
Naturally, when life's lessons knock at the door of our life, happiness can be momentarily obscured.
It's the manager's job to always knock on the door, to always strive to improve, but there has to be a reasonable degree of common sense too.
Opportunities Don't Come Knocking On The Door. They Present Themselves When You Knock The Door Down!
I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.
Why are you knocking at every door ?
Go, knock at the door of your own heart.
Opportunity doesn't knock on my door, I go and break its door down.
Knock upon yourself as upon a door, and when the door opens an answer can be found.
I couldn't knock on people's door; if they answered the door and said, 'I don't want to speak to you,' I'd be like, 'Oh, OK then - I wouldn't either, to be honest.'
The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.
Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.
That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted.
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