quotes about Angelic

last updated: November 28, 2023

May be refined, and join the angelic train.
-- Phillis Wheatley

Source : Phillis Wheatley (2012). “The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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“Love is full of imagination.”
“Reading Gypsy Boy, I felt invited into a secret society. I've always found Gypsies mysterious and even slightly dangerous, and Mikey Walsh does an excellent job describing the cloistered lifestyle and fascinating traditions of the Romani people. Moreover, Mikey's personal story of being a misfit among misfits is both compelling and universal. I cheered for him every step of the way.”
“I asked myself what Palestinians would do if Israel disappeared-if everything not only went back to the way it was before 1948 but if all the Jewish people abandoned the Holy Land and were scattered again. And for the first time, I knew the answer. We would still fight. Over nothing. Over a girl without a head scarf. Over who was toughest and most important. Over who would make the rules and who would get the best seat.”
“Success is not easy. But it is worth the price.”
“Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.”

Source : "This Week in Fiction: Colm Tóibín" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2013.
“Passion--it's the driving force that you just can't ignore. It's what will make your new adventure seem more like fun, than work. It's the difference between wanting to start a business and craving it.”
“A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.”
“There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul into something better, something more beautiful.”
“I grew up in New York.”
“Itâ€™s not just the adage â€˜write what you know,â€™ itâ€™s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience youâ€™ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you donâ€™t know.”