![IMAGE: When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us [the one which has opened for us].](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/doors-20172_640_alexander-graham-bell-402095_640.jpg)
閉ざされた扉があれば、開かれた扉もある。なのに私たちはたいてい、閉ざされた扉の前でいつまでも恨めしそうにたたずみ、自分に向かって開かれた扉の存在に気付かない。 - アレクサンダー・グラハム［アレキザンダー・グレアム］・ベル (1847 - 1922)
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When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us [the one which has opened for us]. - Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)
![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: We never meet without parting. [We never meet without a parting.] / The best of friends must part. / Meeting is the beginning of parting.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/fantasy-4065900_640trim480-100x75.jpg)
![IMAGE: If you don't like it, you can lump it. [If you don't like it, you'll have to lump it. / Like it or lump it!]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hail-123042_640-100x75.jpg)