“A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.” LifeMomentsLife IsDoorsMovementArmsShadowSeasonsEdgesLegsAutumnDelicateRapidsClosingAutumn DaysSnowfallClosing Doors Author:Alan Lightman
“It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.” EasyDoorsYouthEdgesInnocenceStature Book:Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and whats behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.” IfsLittlesNextBitsSidesDarkBehindsDoorsLittle BitGainsEdgesWhat IfFloatingDark SideExaminingQuicksand Author:Trent Reznor
“Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know. Stop up the openings, Close down the doors, Rub off the sharp edges. Unravel all confusion. Harmonize the light, Give up contention: This is called finding the unity of life.” KnowsGivingLightSpeakDoorsGiving UpFindingsUnityEdgesOpeningConfusionContentionSharp Edges Author:Laozi
“The first slap-jack given me for dinner was a cake of flour, partially fried in a pan of fat bacon. I nibbled about the brown edges and threw it, unbaked, against a barn door, where it stuck for days.” FirstsWarGivenDoorsEdgesDinnerStuckFatsCivil WarBrownCakeSlapBarnsFlour Author:James Smith
“I just think of Fannie Lou Hamer, because even though she didn't know my name Ms. Hamer was thinking of me. I just want to do a good job, because I want her to look over that edge of heaven and say, "That's why I did it. That's why. I knew we had the capacity and the talent to be everything America says we can't be. All we needed was an open door."” ThinkingKnowsWantLooksJobsAmericaNamesHeavenDoorsTalentNeededCapacityEdgesGood Job Author:Leah D. Daughtry
“I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though I kind of wish the rattlesnakes would stop curling up by our back door.” KindWishDoorsEdgesNeighborFortunateWildlifeCanyonsBack DoorsRattlesnakes Author:Paul Saffo