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He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash him down and give him a big feed of rashers and eggs and mashed potatoes with loads of butter and salt and onions.I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling.
— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
Liberty does not mean freedom to do anything
— but freedom to do right thing.
Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world.
— Anne Lamott, Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair
Some people are highly empathic, some people are telempathic, or telepathic, some are clairempathic, while others are claircognizant, clairvoyant, clairaliant, clairaudient, clairgustant, clairsentient; and a very few are all of the above. The great amount of confusion and inner strife that accompanies one or more of these conditions, can be calmed and soothed first by acceptance, second by the humility to be okay with the fact that you are stuck with it forever, and third by honing these conditions to their best possible uses and most polished states.
— C. JoyBell C.
There comes a time in life that all you need is just someone to listen to you without judging or telling you what you should have done and should do, but simply just listening to you.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.
— Victor LaValle, Big Machine
To help others, will be rewarded
— Janis yingnan Ji
Help other people ,help themselves
— Yanis Yingnan JI
But when he’s cut, I bleed.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour
You have to see everyone in relationship to you. Just because you understand the shit in someone else's life doesn't mean you don't stand up for your own
— Chris Crutcher, Whale Talk
Empathy is a big part of Sparkleponies, because it’s also my belief (as a history and political science major) that societies that don’t practice rational empathy inevitably collapse – either by fomenting conflict from within by oppressing a segment/s of their populace, or seeking conflict from without by taking from others and eventually getting into a fight they can’t win.
— Chris Kluwe
Empathy needs no genius.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
King and Gandhi had found a way to use aggressive impulses to resist injustice without hurting others. Where did the aggression go? The answer, as King would later tell Poussaint, was this: into the courage needed to resist without fighting back physically...
— S. Nassir Ghaemi, A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
...if we do not know how to defend ourselves, our women and our places of worship by force of suffering, i.e., nonviolence, we must, if we are men, be at least able to defend all these by fighting." (MLK)"...If given a choice between violent resistance and passive acceptance, King and Gandhi both accepted violence..." "...like violence, it [non-violent resistance] was aggressive, but it was spiritually, bot physically, so." "...At the same time the mind and the emotions are active, actively trying to persuade the opponent to change his ways and convince him that he is mistaken and to lift him to a higher level of existence.
— S. Nassir Ghaemi, A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
Fellow-feeling. . .is the most important factor in producing a healthy political and social life. Neither our national nor our local civic life can be what it should be unless it is marked by the fellow-feeling, the mutual kindness, the mutual respect, the sense of common duties and common interests, which arise when men take the trouble to understand one another, and to associate together for a common object. A very large share of the rancor of political and social strife arises either from sheer misunderstanding by one section, or by one class, of another, or else from the fact that the two sections, or two classes, are so cut off from each other that neither appreciates the other’s passions, prejudices, and, indeed, point of view, while they are both entirely ignorant of their community of feeling as regards the essentials of manhood and humanity.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Author says that, while Eisenhower had other intellectual mentors, he learned how to lead men from Gen. Walter Krueger. Krueger was the first American enlisted man to rise to four-star general, and he so identified with those he led that he once invited a sentry out of the rain and gave him his own dry uniform.
— Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace
Traveling on, the shaft of his light reached now a great, dully shining oblong, and he stopped, surprised. Then, through the glass sides, he saw bright shapes of fish wheel in schools down the opaque water, startled by the illumination. Coming at last, and so suddenly, on life like his own, Mr. Lecky moved closer. The fixed flood of his light enveloped these small fish dimly, glowed back on him. They came sliding, drifting, mouths in motion, gills rippling, up the light, against the glass. Their senseless round eyes stared at Mr. Lecky. Idling with great grace, the extravagant products of selective breeding - fringetails, Korean, calico - passed, swayed about, came languidly back. Moving faster, stub-finned, crop-tailed danios from the Malabar coast appeared, hovered, taking the light on their fat flanks, now spotted, now iridescent pearl or opal.Seeing so many of them, so eager and attentive, Mr. Lecky felt an unexpected compunction. He was their only proprietor; and soon, trapped unnaturally here in the big tank, they would starve to death. His light went back to a counter he had just passed, showing him again the half-noticed packages - food for birds and pet animals, food, too, for fish. Returning to the tank, his light found many of the fish still waiting, the rest rushing back. He went and took a package, tore the top off, and poured the contents onto the rectangle of open water. It would perhaps postpone the time when, having eaten each other, the sick remainder must die anyway.
— James Gould Cozzens, Castaway
Life is always going to be a series of ouch-making moments, and the question was, was I going to go all fetal position, or was I going to woman up? I went into fetal position on the bed to think about this. Fetal position turned out to be very comfortable.
— Maureen Johnson, The Madness Underneath
As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection of the partner’s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains.
— R.A. Salvatore, The Silent Blade
We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing.
— Susan Glaspell, Trifles
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? Even if the world's rich and powerful were to put themselves in the shoes of the rest, how much would they really understand the wretched millions suffering around them? So it is when Orhan the novelist peers into the dark corners of his poet friend's difficult and painful life: How much can he really see?
— Orhan Pamuk, Snow
Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and that we fall together in that moment of tenderest perception when we see and feel each other's wounds and know another's sorrow like a brother of our own.
— Niall Williams, As It Is in Heaven
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
— Pearl S. Buck, What America Means To Me
Indeed, insight is the true hallmark of empathy. The power of true empathy is its ability to give us a fresh understanding of the other person's emotions and thoughts to illuminate an aspect of their experience that would not have been apparent to us had we not stepped into their shoes.
— Guy Winch
•	People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.
— Guy Kawasaki, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions
I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess’s room.The look of sincere sympathy that used to be on their faces when they made eye contact with me is gone.It has been replaced by shear helplessness as they quickly walk past me with their heads tilted down and to the right.I feel like Bud Fox walking into his office with the Securities and Exchange Commission awaiting him.
— JohnA Passaro, 6 Minutes Wrestling With Life
Humans are unique in having the astonishing capacity to extend our sympathies far beyond the here and now. through time and space, to anywhere and anything we choose. It is our culture that decides how large and inclusive our moral circle is, but it is each of us who makes up our culture. (p.250)
— Andrew Westoll
To us post-moderns, empathy is a stranger in a strange land". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]
— R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal
She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.
— Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.
— Sam Lipsyte
If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
— Tennessee Williams, Conversations with Tennessee Williams
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush
You do realize this makes your wings even more unique.""Are you saying you shot me as a cosmetic procedure?
— Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood
The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.
— Brenna Yovanoff, The Space Between
Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night? 
— Jim Morrison
It's too cold outside for angels to fly.
— Ed Sheeran
Option 1: Attempt to back out.Probable result: Death after painful torture.Option 2: Do the job and hope.Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)
— Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood
And while Luce dreamed below of the most glorious wings unfurling-the likes of which she'd never seen before-two angels in the rafters shook hands.
— Lauren Kate, Fallen
Gabriel.This has to be his fault, somehow. I'm going to track him down, pluck out his angel feathers, and stuff a pillow with them.
— Lisa Desrochers, Personal Demons
God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
— Victor Hugo
Why does she have wings?'So she can fly.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
What does Éloa mean?”He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name of an angel.”Penelope tilted her head, thinking. “I’ve never heard of him.”“You wouldn’t have.”“Was he a fallen angel?”“She was, yes.” He hesitated, not wanting to tell her the story, but unable to stop himself. “Lucifer tricked her into falling from heaven.”“Tricked her how?”He met her gaze. “She fell in love with him.”Penelope’s eyes widened. “Did he love h
— Sarah MacLean, A Rogue by Any Other Name
Sii la mia schiava d’amore,” I purr.Her expression is guarded. “What did you say?”An amused smile pulls at my lips. “I’ll never tell.” Somehow, I don’t think she’d agree to be my love slave anyway.
— Lisa Desrochers, Personal Demons
It's too cold outsideFor angels to flyAn angel will dieCovered in whiteClosed eyeAnd hoping for a better lifeThis time, we'll fade out tonightStraight down the line
— Ed Sheeran
But his eyes say what he can’t. I see it, clear as day, even if she doesn’t. He’d give up his wings for her. All she’d have to do is ask.
— Lisa Desrochers, Personal Demons
Luce blushed. "Then what kind of angel are you?""I'm sort of in between gigs right now," Daniel said.
— Lauren Kate, Fallen
I've been sleeping with the night light unpluggedWith a note on the rocking chairIt says I'm dreaming of the life I once lovedSo wake me if you're out there
— Owl City
Bottom line? As much as youwanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in control of their life. Not you. And you could throw yourself against the wall of their choices until you were black-and-blue and dizzy as hell, but unless they decided to take a different road, the outcome wasn’t going to be what you wanted.
— J.R. Ward, Crave
You fainted and I caught you. It was the first time I'd supported a human. You had such heavy bones. I put myself between you and gravity. Impossible.
— Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck
I hoisted myself onto my elbows. "Yeah, well, if I ever come back as a Grigori, then I'll kick your ass.""You'll come back, and you'll be a Grigori." He spoke with such certainty it made me smile. "I doubt very greatly, however, that you'll kick my ass. But me and my ass will enjoy your efforts.
— Jessica Shirvington, Embrace
Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love.
— Brenna Yovanoff, The Space Between
This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.
— Melissa de la Cruz
The remnants of my dress hung like tentacles and from my back arched a pari of towering wings, feather-light but suggesting enourmous power. My hair streamed behind me, and I knew that the ring of light around my head would be brighter than ever.“Holy crap!” Xavier blurted
— Alexandra Adornetto, Halo
Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the whumph of unseen wings. Here and there, feathers fell, and they were like tufts of white fire, disintegrating to ash as soon as they touched the ground.
— Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.
— Thomas E. Sniegoski, The Fallen and Leviathan
You are you and you are me. You are the Keshet.
— Jessica Shirvington, Embrace
I have spoken here of heavenly help, of angels dispatched to bless us in time of need. But when we speak of those who are instruments in the hand of God, we are reminded that not all angels are from the other side of the veil. Some of them we walk with and talk with—here, now, every day. Some of them reside in our own neighborhoods. Some of them gave birth to us, and in my case, one of them consented to marry me. Indeed heaven never seems closer than when we see the love of God manifested in the kindness and devotion of people so good and so pure that angelic is the only word that comes to mind.
— Jeffrey R. Holland
First rule of Angel Club, you do not talk about Angel Club.
— Cynthia Hand, Hallowed
Living close to the groundIs seventh Heaven 'cause there are angels all aroundAmong my frivolous thoughtsI believe there are beautiful things seen by the astronautsWake me if you're out there.
— Owl City
Oh No! My wings are effed up!
— Tammara Webber, Between the Lines
They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.
— John Connolly, The Reapers
There's no such thing as coincidences, only incidences with a twist.
— Leanore Elliott, The Beholder
I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.
— George Sand, George Sand: A Biography
Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the end—and there was no going back for a redo. You couldn‟t take a peek at what you‟d manufactured and decide, Oh, wait, I wanted to make sewing machines instead of machine guns; let me go back to the beginning and start again. One shot. That was all you got.
— J.R. Ward, Crave
I tell my girls when you have done everything humanly possible, when you have fought with everything in you for something you truly believe in and it is still out of reach, it's time to become a feather. Let the wind guide you for awhile....
— Susan Goldsmith
He has a beauty to him that is not quite angelic, a quality that's both ethereal and dark. (Jonathan)
— Helen Boswell, Mythology: The Wicked
Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.
— Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone
That's my girl," he murmured."I'm not your girl.""Well," he said not bothering to hide his smile from her sightless eyes, "the good news is that the honey gave you back your sparkling personality.""And the bad news?""The honey gave you back your sparkling personality.
— Larissa Ione, Reaver
No. It is said that the Nephilim are the children of men and angels. All that this angelic heritage has given to us is a longer distance to fall.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed.
— Angel Blessing
The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light.
— Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden
On a wing and a prayer." (After being asked how the angels make love in Milton's Paradise Lost).
— Benjamin R.  Smith
Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wobbling back and forth. Tilting freely, to and fro. One does not like to think that sometimes it is the angel that falls.
— Holly Black, A Flight of Angels
September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting,rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
— Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
That was all I wanted!" whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct.
— Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
Told ya you were special.
— Thomas E. Sniegoski, The Fallen
The Angel said, 'Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong, and the one who is filthy still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness.
— Anonymous
The sudden urge to join the fray was intoxicating.Aaron Corbet
— Thomas E. Sniegoski, The Fallen and Leviathan
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
— William Shakespeare
Fine,” he said. “You’re right. We’re not normal. We’re the most fucked-up, star-crossed lovers in history. So let’s not play nice.
— Larissa Ione, Reaver
What is it?" she asked. "I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?" "I'm afraid not," she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. "There's too much of the devil in me for that." "Just how much devil," I grinned, "are we talking about here?
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.
— Chris Adrian, The Children's Hospital
I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.
— Danielle Trussoni, Angelology
If journeys came with rulebooks, he'd probably just disobeyed every word.
— Heather Burch, Halflings
So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)
— Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother
I know exactly what Einstein meant when he said, "Dancers are the athletes of God." You three look like angels. I can't wait to see you dancing in the Christmas concert.
— Kirsty Murray, The Secret Life of Maeve Lee Kwong
If we are serious about dreaming our awakening into being and creating a peaceful, loving earth in which the heart, spirit and soul are the only true leaders, we must continue to keep our focus on thoughts of unity and all that truly brings us together.
— Diane  Hall
His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile.
— Laini Taylor
If then we have angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.
— John Chrysostom
The satisfying sound of bone giving way, as well as his outraged cry, made the you-had-it-coming-asshole angles sing.
— J.A. Saare, The Renfield Syndrome
If the bards of old the true has toldThe sirens have raven hair.But over the earth since art had birth,They paint the angels fair.
— L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest
O smile, going where? O upturned look:new, warm, receding surge of the heart--;alas, we are that surge. Does then the cosmic spacewe dissolve in taste of us? Do the  angelsreclaim only what is theirs, their own outstreamed existence,or sometimes, by accident, does a bit  of usget mixed in? Are we blended in their featureslike the slight vagueness that  complicates the looksof pregnant women? Unnoticed by them in theirwhirling back into themselves? (How  could they notice?)
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Who're them?" says he to the curate."Them are the fallen angels," says the c
— Eddie Lenihan, Meeting the Other Crowd
She hadn’t planned any of this, but her thoughts ran away with her, and she hated how pathetic she must sound. Poor little human needed the big bad angel to rescue her. Yuck.
— India Drummond, Ordinary Angels
Upon awakening you may find no need to speak nothing to sayand no one to convince.Your very presence will spread happiness wisdom and truthto all you may encounter...along the Way.
— Leland Lewis, Angel Stories. Angelic Tales of the Universe. Tales 1 through 6.
All that you areforever to Be,Is prior to...and just beyondInfinity.
— Leland Lewis, Angel Stories. Angelic Tales of the Universe. Tales 1 through 6.
The angels that dry our eyes bear the form and the features of all we have said and thought—above all, of what we have done, prior to the hour of misfortune.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom And Destiny
A monster, some called her. But in the shadows, only said in whispers, she was an angel in red.
— Emory R. Frie, Enchanted Forest
She thinks of the way angels arrive, when you lease expect them, when the road is dark, when you're bleeding and alone and hopeless, when you're sleeping in a basement, convinced that no one knows you're there.
— Alice Hoffman, Faithful
A miracle is no less glorious for having previously happened
— Erika Gardner, The Dragon in the Garden
Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
— Allen Ginsberg
Here and there, plumes of dark smoke reach into the sky like the fingers of a drowning man reaching up for the last time.
— Susan Ee, Angelfall
Heroes are like angels, they're all around us… we just don’t always stop to notice ...
— Nanette L. Avery
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Nor was it wise to tempt angels, even of the fallen sort.
— Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles
Fate isn't set in stone. Free will can change everything
— A.J. Messenger, Guardian
This is what I mean..." I say softly, "you don't seem very angel-y right now""I'm not feeling very angel-y right now", he reply
— A.J. Messenger, Guardian
I pray that I'll have wings one day, in which Your light adorns; but for now please let me be Your servant, Lord, like an angel not yet born.
— Lisa Mischelle Wood, Just Believe: A Collection of Christian Poetry
God and the archangels know your heart, they know what is in your heart before you even speak it. You don't have to say a word, or say the right words, they already know everything you have been through and everything your heart truly wants to experience.
— Eileen Anglin
The angels know who you truly are and all that you are capable of being.
— Eileen Anglin
Some Ange'el are a bit more powerful. Each one has their own set of capabilities and level of skill depending on the purity of their genes and their age. Some Ange'el can heal ya. Some can convince ya to do their will. Some know what you're thinking. Some can speak to you using only their minds, and Viviane ... well, Viviane can do it all.
— Jamie Le Fay, Bloodline
The angels came to tell me what I could expect and how to get where I needed to go. I was reassured that I would not have to cross the Bridge alone. There were so many things I did not yet know. I could feel my mental clarity leaving. I fixed my gaze upon her. I watched her as I left. It was like shutting the door of a beloved home for the last time. Like closing up camp for the season. One last look at the ocean before you must leave it behind with hopes of return but with no guarantee. You eventually have to turn away and look the other direction so that you can see where it is you are going.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
Angels were created into form so they can interact with Earth in a physical way.
— Eileen Anglin
Love is here.” Chamuel pointed to her chest. “If you can’t feel it, Lilly, that’s on you.
— Ellie Elisabeth, Army of the Almost Dead
It’s to your best interest to be patient with your REAL self as you nurture it back into existence." ~ Linda Deir
— Linda Deir, Guided: Her Spirit Guide Angels Were Her Best Friends and Life Coaches
A feather is a sign from the angels. It is a response to a question, a thought or an emotion. It's their way of saying; "You are loved and are being guided through this by the angelic realm.
— Eileen Anglin
Sometime your only blocks are you.... Stop thinking small and play with the unlimited power you have been given.
— Fran Leigh, Love According to the Angels
I write, heal, paint and coach with the Archangels to create global change, one heart at a time.
— Eileen Anglin
Life's changes creates confidenc!
— Sue Pighini, Expect the Extraordinary: Angelic Messages, Spiritual Encounters and the Soul of Skye
Life's changes creates confidence!
— Sue Pighini, Expect the Extraordinary: Angelic Messages, Spiritual Encounters and the Soul of Skye
Expect the Unexpected
— Juliette Power
Your soul is powerful and wise. With the support of Divine love, and the assistance of the angels, you have the power to create the highest vision of your life.
— Eileen Anglin
We are angels just like the rest of our brothers and sisters.
— Jay Woodman
Young Sathian was flirtatious, titillating, quick-witted, and brilliant. He left a trail of broken hearts across the land as he teased and taunted his victims with his beauty and charm. Both women and men succumbed to his joie de vivre and panache as he was an untypical Ange’el that carried the sunshine in his smile and in his eyes.
— Jamie Le Fay, Escape
I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one.
— Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
perhaps the answer is simply one:one female angel dancing alone in her stocking feet,a small jazz combo working in the background.She sways like a branch in the wind, her beautifuleyes closed, and the tall thin bassist leans overto glance at his watch because she has been dancingforever, and now it is very late, even for musicians.
— Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
Know that you are divinely guided and watched over in every moment of every day.
— Eileen Anglin
Let's run away.""To where?" "Alaska." "What's in Alaska?" "No clue," I whispered. "Find out with me.
— Cecily White, Conspiracy Boy
Hold onto the wings of angels that pass your way. They fly higher than any army that has none.
— Shannon L. Alder
We’ll sleep when we’re tired. When we wake, I’ll find a way to make you laugh and I’ll live in the sound of it.” My throat gets tight because I long for that day to be now. “We’ll find somewhere you’ve never been and we’ll make it ours—fill it with memories of us. That’s what I want.” I finish with the alcohol swab. Leaning close, I gently blow on his healing wound to ease the sting. Reed takes my hand and brings it to his lips, kissing it tenderly. “And when we get that sleep, there will never be a your side or a my side of the bed—we’ll always meet in the middle. And when I hold you there, in our bed, you’ll let me rest my lips here.” Reed lets go of my hand to move his thumb to caress the sensitive skin of my neck just beneath my ear. I get swept up in him: my body his with one touch. I turn and rub my cheek gently against his palm. “And we won’t rush...ever,” I murmur, forgetting to be scared. I want that future with him. “The world can spin around us but we’ll take our time, savor every moment.” My head rests on his shoulder. “Just you and me.
— Amy A. Bartol
Angels are all around us—everywhere andomnipresent. I consider them to be proof that God loves us, wants to protect us, and that he is always there.
— Catherine Carrigan, What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness
Your angels guide you every second of every day. You are not alone and never will be!
— Catherine Carrigan, Unlimited Intuition NOW
Every moment of every day, your mind chooses whether you focus on the angelic or the demonic, on your life’s blessings or your tragedies, on the flashes of insight or the reminders of trouble.
— Catherine Carrigan, Unlimited Intuition NOW
As you communicate regularly with your very own angels, you will come to trust them and you will also in the process develop more confidence.
— Catherine Carrigan, Unlimited Intuition NOW
Of all the places in the world, you ended up in New Orleans?” I asked, unable to keep the sarcasm from my voice.Michael nodded. “Yes,” he agreed, apparently not registering the sarcasm. “Please,” I muttered, pulling a face. “Hurricanes, poverty, homes that are never going to be rebuilt, oil spills... this city has had so much crap thrown at it, and you’re telling me that there are angels here?”Again, Michael nodded. “Yes. Regardless of what has happened or what is happening, this city fights.”Okay, he may have had a point. The citizens of New Orleans were resilient; I’d give him that.
— C. L. Coffey
Once you talk to your angels you will never feel truly alone ever again in this lifetime.
— Catherine Carrigan, Unlimited Intuition NOW
Your angels and spiritual guides are high vibration beings who already know your answers.
— Catherine Carrigan, Unlimited Intuition NOW
Your angels know exactly how much information you can handle at any one moment.
— Catherine Carrigan, Unlimited Intuition NOW
It is a curiosity of writing about angels that, very often, one turns out to be writing about men.
— Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
Even in concept, angels are unsettling. They’re like drones, totally mindlessly following the will of God. The only difference between the Heavenly angels and demons is that the demons opted to follow after a different queen bee. So, you have these eyeball speckled, part animal monsters who exist only to worship and obey God. They don’t have a moral compass, they just act.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
Monster” is derived from the Latin noun monstrum, “divine portent,” itself formed on the root of the verb monere, “to warn.” It came to refer to living things of anomalous shape or structure, or to fabulous creatures like the sphinx who were composed of strikingly incongruous parts, because the ancients considered the appearance of such beings to be a sign of some impending supernatural event. Monsters, like angels, functioned as messengers and heralds of the extraordinary. They served to announce impending revelation, saying, in effect, “Pay attention; something of profound importance is happening.
— Susan Stryker
Our guardian angels love us unconditionally, and they never leave us.
— Eileen Anglin
Cat knew she'd arrived in Gaia's realm once she saw the Tree of Life, the foundation for all that was above and below.... The Tree of Life, no matter what religion one embraced, was a symbol of consanguinity. It was the universal representation of all that exists. Its network of connections matched that of a forest of aspen trees. Everything was interconnected and all of the roots led back to one source - the creators of all life.
— Brynn Myers, The Echoed Life of Jorja Graham
The universe speaks to us, if we have the courage to see it for what it is.
— Nikki Rowe
Ruta Skadi was four hundred and sixteen years old, with all the pride and knowledge of an adult witch queen. She was wiser by far than any short-lived human, but she had not the slightest idea of how like a child she seemed beside these ancient beings. Nor did she know how far their awareness spread out beyond her like filamentary tentacles to the remotest corners of universes she had never dreamed of; nor that she saw them as human-formed only because her eyes expected to. If she were to perceive their true form, they would seem more like architecture than organism, like huge structures composed of intelligence and feeling.But they expected nothing else: she was very young.
— Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
Over the years, numerous times, too many times to count, just as I was about to reach my breaking point, just when I thought I couldn't take another minute, another second, out of nowhere-at the grocery store, at the park, at restaurants-angel, Ethan's angels, would appear and safe us: strangers in stores would stop to talk to Ethan; neighbors took him for a walk...
— Jim Kokoris, It's. Nice. Outside.
I guess we're not going to see them any time soon." Lucas pointed towards the stairs with his fork between bites.	Cat chuckled. "Probably not," she said before taking a sip of her coffee. "I guess if I died for the man I loved and came back to life, I wouldn't be leaving our bed for a while either.
— Brynn Myers, The Echoed Life of Jorja Graham
And... a bed. A bed and a blanket to cover them, a blanket that was theirs together.
— Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters
Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
— Brynn Myers, The Echoed Life of Jorja Graham
Cat's brows shot up as Lucas slid the plate across the counter. "I'm impressed. I wouldn't have assumed you ate real food much less cooked it," she teased.	"I'm curious, what did you think I ate?" he asked as he grabbed a fork and a knife for her.	She smiled. "I don't know, bats... small critters you happen upon in the underworld."	Lucas handed her a napkin. "Nah, bats don't really have that much meat on them," he retorted with a grin of his own.
— Brynn Myers, The Echoed Life of Jorja Graham
I am never alone, my Soul guides me and my Guardian Angel protects me. That is teamwork at its best.
— Genevieve Gerard
The prophecy stated that Hades' most beloved oracle, Sybil, was to bed two males of significance on the same night. Each male had been chosen from the finest of all Hades' demons to consecrate this union. They were to fill her not only their seed but with their blood, giving the boys their life and their abilities.	On the day of their birth, Sybil announced that her boys were to rule the five rivers and would do so in peace for many years, but that eventually, one of her sons would become the underworld's demise, while the other would become its destiny.
— Brynn Myers, The Echoed Life of Jorja Graham
The underworld was made up of many different regions. Each area was its own private sector and not everyone who resided here was malevolent. Some beings here were virtuous, while others had yet to decide what they were - their fates having yet to be decided. Not all dark creatures were evil, just as not all light creatures were moral. Corbin and Quentin were the epitome of that dichotomy.
— Brynn Myers, The Echoed Life of Jorja Graham
Jorja felt great after her session with the crew from physical therapy. She'd never been one for acting, but if Cat could have seen her, she'd have offered her the Academy Award for "Best Performance by a Previously Dead Person in a Reincarnated Body." Jorja chuckled at the thought...
— Brynn Myers, The Echoed Life of Jorja Graham
Live your life. The reset button has been pushed.
— Brynn Myers, The Echoed Life of Jorja Graham
Funny how things have turned out, huh, Jorja. Your mother is the 'demon' and your lover is the nurturer," Jorja commented into the air.
— Brynn Myers, The Echoed Life of Jorja Graham
You want to put people in neat categories, make them monsters or angels, but it almost never works that way. You work in the gray and frankly that kinda sucks. The extremes are so much easier.
— Harlan Coben
There’s always people looking the other way when the miracles take place, people who want only a good night’s sleep when the stars are dancing, comets falling, the angels leaning low out of midnight with their trumpets, their cantatas of longing.
— Paul Russell, The Salt Point
Over the years, numerous times, too many times to count, just as I was about to reach my breaking point, just when I thought I couldn't take another minute, another second, out of nowhere-at the grocery store, at the park, at restaurants-angels, Ethan's angels, would appear and save us: strangers in stores would stop to talk to Ethan; neighbors took him for a walk...
— Jim Kokoris, It's. Nice. Outside.
How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then I immediately realised I already had. Not an archangel like Saint Michael, but my human angel from Detroit, wearing an overcoat and no hat, with lank brown hair and eyes the coler of water.
— Patti Smith, M Train
Beloved angels, watch over me. Walk beside me, lead me, comfort me, enfold me in your divine love.
— Eileen Anglin
We don't lose our loved ones when they die. We gain guardian angels. - Tanya Masse aka Comic Strip Mama
— Tanya Masse
How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then I immediately realised that I already had. Not an archangel like Saint Michael, but my human engel from Detroit, wearing an overcoat and no hat, with lank brown hair and eyes the coler of water.
— Patti Smith, M Train
You know, the answer to your problem is just an attitude change away.
— Cameo Renae, Broken Wings
There are, in places, fallen angelswho in their iniquity and desolationlinger like a stranger on a foggy night,sustained by the misdeeds of city-dwellersand spurred on by bitter hatredfor their bright kin moving past them.
— Miriam Joy, Crossroads Poetry
Redemption is won in the light, but is wrought in the darkness.
— Holt Clarke, The Sword of Eden
Stone gnomes and angels filled the gardens, and it seemed that they were also sleeping, as though a witch had cast a spell on them.
— Lauren DeStefano, A Curious Tale of the In-Between
Where the veil broke, you could see silvery clouds on which tall angels might stand. Not cute little Christmas angels, but high, stern angels in white robes, whose faces were sad and serious from being near God all day and hearing His decisions about the world.
— Cynthia Voigt, Homecoming
Every devil used to be an angel
— Joe Hilley
I was surprised at how easy it was to get into hell, but then again, wasn't hell the easier path to take?
— Cameo Renae, Broken Wings
So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal
— John Milton, Milton's Comus
How many people must there be, who are completely unknown in this world, but they are famous in the sky."There are people on this earth who may seem insignificant to you and me. But they are beloved to Allah and their name is constantly mentioned among the angels in the sky.
— Nouman Ali Khan
Sweet girl, if I told you everything, life would lose all mystery.
— K.  Webster, Alpha & Omega
I met a boy. And when he smiled, my life began.
— K.  Webster, Alpha & Omega
No one is only good or only bad. We have a bit of both inside of us all.
— Erica Crouch, Ignite
Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,One task more declin'd, one more foot-path ontrod,One more devil's triumph and sorrow for angels,One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!
— Robert Browning
There are angels in nature walking amongst the trees and whispering the secret language of sacred things.
— Jodi Sky Rogers
...we are our flaws, but they don't have to define us as either good or evil.
— Erica Crouch, Ignite
I want wings. That's all I've ever wanted.
— K.  Webster, Alpha & Omega
Demons. Angels. Both are the same, neither one cares that humanity gets in the way of their conflicts.
— Drake Rogue
After I was in Idaho, I started to ask my personal Angel, which I believe mine to be Archangel Ariel for a vision of my past life. Before I had a chance to barely finish the sentence, I saw a terrifying image. I saw an Indian woman from the knees down wearing loose pants, running in terror from someone or something. A great fear came over me so strong, I had to stop the image, and almost started shaking. When you remember past life events, you have what they call Cellular Memory. So the fear that I felt was me reliving that moment
— Jennifer  Underwood, The Road to Sedona-All Paths Lead to You: How One Woman's Past Life Can Shape the Future
It was the kind of place where hard drinkers came to wrestle their demons while fallen angels drank alone in dark smoky corners.
— Ian Tregillis, Something More Than Night
The only good deed I’ll be doing tonight is for the angels.”“The angels?”“Haven’t you heard? Every time I make you come, an angel gets his wings.”Brady dropped his smoky gaze to Gage’s mouth for a beat. “We really need to leave. Now.
— Kate Meader, Melting Point
God? We don't know what He's like. But at least now that we're dead we all know we don't know, whereas on Earth we all thought we knew, and those who didn't know didn't know that they knew they didn't know. They didn't find that out till they'd been here in purgatory for a while. Now we all know we don't know. Even the angels.
— E.A.A. Wilson, Ascension Denied
Every time you have an orgasm an angel comes to life..
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
Antonio," Ash groaned, "you know I hate it when you eat at my desk." "I know," Antonio replied, "but I don't mind and so long as one of us is reasonable, I figured why not?
— Danielle James, Redemption
Is it beautiful?”“Really weird. But don’t get hung up on the angels. They’re mostly assholes.
— Ian Tregillis, Something More Than Night
My angels are jellyfish,electric, nearly invisible,armed with poisoned harpoons.My archangels are yellow tang.They feed on sunlight.They speak through color.Anything in their paths turns blind.
— Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare
I loved you instantly, because angels can love instantly.
— Dianna Hardy, The Demon Bride
In this busy modernized age, it's easy to be blind to the light all around us. You see, there truly are real angels living among us that look just like you and I. If you pay attention, you can spot one because they're quite easy to find. They're the souls with the eternally deep eyes that always act like something is broken inside, but fail to realize it's just their wings.
— Suzy Kassem
Human beings, when confronted with the strange and inexplicable, have an immediate instinct to get back to the accustomed and the normal. We do not hug our miracles close; we put them hastily away, preferring the commonplace to live with it. It is as if some compulsive hand wipes clean the wall on which the handwriting appeared.
— Fulton Oursler, The Greatest Story Ever Told
Help others while respecting the Sacred Law of Free Will. By recognizing and honoring God in others, you recognize and honor God within yourself.
— Human Angels, We are human angels
No demon could ever care enough to let go." ~ Muse
— Pippa DaCosta, Ties That Bind
A bunch of Angels waving their hands at someone, giving them extraordinary and miraculous abilities, doesn’t make anyone holy,” Satan said.  “Holiness has to be earned, and it is earned in this world of pain and woe, not in the world of spirit.  Define holiness by your faith and your deeds, not by your tricks, and you can save yourself from the damnation you fall toward.” satan
— Randall Farmer, 99 Gods: Betrayer
When we surrender completely to our Higher Self and we remember that we are Divine Beings, that we are Human Angels, the illusion of having limits vanishes and everything, including miracles, becomes possible in the name of Love.
— Human Angels, We are human angels
A writer's journey may be tough, but never give up and enjoy every moment.
— Rhonda Hughe St. John, Soul Chaser: In the Mortal and Immortal Souls Series 1
The total acceptance of ourselves in the present moment without judging things that happen, letting things happen as they happen, is the final act that frees us from the ego: this is the unconditional surrender of the ego to the Higher Self.
— Human Angels, We are human angels
Fear enslaves us, Truth sets us free and the only Truth is the Oneness.
— Human Angels
I’d fought alongside them in that battle, but up close, when they stood quietly watching us, they looked as beautiful as they looked unreal. The angels weren’t supposed to feel emotion, but they were weeping. All of them. Their tears stained their flawless faces like rain running in rivulets across stone.
— Courtney Allison Moulton, Shadows in the Silence
The fear that blocks learning is removed by Love - only then can people be reached
— Linda Deir, Guided
The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, with outstretched wings, awaiting the soul.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
It takes more courage to be yourself than to live in the prison of ego with feelings of guilt. It takes a lot more courage to be happy than to be unhappy.
— Human Angels
There are no coincidences, only synchronicities: mini miracles placed before us by the Angels with love to inspire the mind and expand the heart.
— Molly Friedenfeld
Human Angels are beacons that simply being who they are, illuminate the darkness, to help those who are still on the path to stay the course.
— Human Angels, We are human angels
Angels love to create synchronicities because each synchronicity produces an illumination point for a soul to connect the dots on life experiences. This insight, in turn, creates an opportunity to expand the heart and grow the soul, which always results in positive change for humanity.
— Molly Friedenfeld