Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
We are each of us are angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Lucretius
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels.
We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekhov
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
- Raymond Inmon
There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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.
- Pearl S. Buck
Cloud Animals: Be a Child Again.
I remember warm summer afternoons,
laying in the shade of a maple tree in the back yard
of my Connecticut home watching the clouds for hours.
As those clouds formed dragons and foxes, clowns and angels,
I traveled across space and time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted
with the government of himself.
Can he, then be trusted with the government of others?
Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him?
Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Every time you hear a bell ring,
it means that some angel's just got his wings.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
May God grant you always...
A sunbeam to warm you,
a moonbeam to charm you,
a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you.
Laughter to you.
Faithful friends near you.
And whenever you pray,
Heaven to hear you.
- Irish Blessing
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
- Albert Schweitzer
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
Tip the world over on its side and
everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.
The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over
and let the beautiful stuff out.
- Ray Bradbury
The Master teaches that the way of qigong cannot be hurried.
Wuji refers to the time before the creation -
when everything was formless.
Standing in the wuji position, my feet are parallel
to each other, shoulder-width apart.
My knees are slightly bent,
and the tip of my tongue touches the roof of my mouth.
My arms are held in front of me with my elbows bent
and my palms parallel to each other - about four inches apart.
At first I focus on my breathing, and only my breathing.
Later, I visualize the energy or "Qi" between my palms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let it be.
- Paul McCartney
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- Albert Schweitzer
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
- Rumi
Let's Roll.
- Todd Beamer
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Do not let your fire go out.
- Ayn Rand
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about
and let that guide you to your destination.
- Diane Sawyer
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
Let light shine through the cracks
in the armor of your staunchest beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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