Kenneth Grahame Quotes

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

One door closes and another one opens.

Sometimes you just need to go through a door.

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .

So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.

And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

I'm ready for a different America.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

This is my year of the remake. Go for it, see what you can do, guys, why not?

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.

Sometimes the best thing we can ask for is change, and a fresh start forces us to confront change head-on.

Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.