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The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the Infinite.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
by George Eliot
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
by Thomas Paine
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
by Brian Tracy
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
Are you kiddin’? He’s gorgeous! His face looks like it was carved by angels.
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
Author Unknown
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one.
Author Unknown
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me.
Author Unknown
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy and second thought, which men never put off and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
Edwin Louis Cole
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Honore de Balzac
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Anais Nin
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Sam Witwicky: { looking up at Bumblebee } Can you talk?
Bumblebee: { through his radio } “XM Satellite One”… “Digital Cable brings you”… “Columbia Broadcasting System”…
Sam Witwicky: So, you… so you talk through the radio?
Bumblebee: { clapping his hands } “Thank you, you’re beautiful! You’re wonderful, you’re wonderful.”
Sam Witwicky: So what was that last night? What was that?
Bumblebee: { pointing skywards } “Message from Starfleet, Captain”… “Throughout the inanimate vastness of space”… “And angels will rain down like visitors from Heaven! Hallelujah!”
Mikaela Banes: Visitors from heaven… so you’re, like, an alien?
{ Bumblebee points a finger at her and nods, and converts into a Camaro }
Bumblebee: “Any more questions you want to ask?”
Sam Witwicky: He wants us to get in the car.
Mikaela Banes: { laughing nervously } And go where?
Sam Witwicky: Fifty years from now, when you’re looking back at your life, don’t you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?
During the darkest indigo midnight, yet will countless stars blossom.
Dr. SunWolf
People don’t ever seem to relate that doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune.
William McFee, Casuals of the Sea, 1916
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
William Hazlitt
Allow yourself a moment of grief when life’s misfortunes visit you. However, do not spend your days building a monument in honor of them.
Dodinsky
Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
Maltbie D. Babcock
I bear a little more than I can bear.
Elinor Hoyt Wylie, Angels and Earthly Creatures. One Person. Sonnet XVI
Every evil is some good spelt backwards and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
Coventry Patmore
May you get what you wish for.
Old Chinese Curse
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Walt Schmidt
Watch a man in times of… adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart and the mask is torn off.
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
First we’ll make snow angels for a two hours, then we’ll go ice skating, then we’ll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse Cookiedough as fast as we can, and then we’ll snuggle.
Buddy
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
