"It is said that angels come as thoughts, as visions, as dreams, as animals, as the light on the water or in clouds and rainbows, and as people too. Are they walking on this earth as people in disguise? Or do they appear for that one moment and vanish into ether again? Or is it really us, mere humans, who for a moment are picked up by the hand of God and made to speak unwittingly the words another needs to hear, or to hold out a life line to another soul?"

-- Sophy Burnham "A Book of Angles"

Love is a fruit in season at all times.

-- Mother Teresa

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart and you shall see in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

-- Kahlil Gibran

If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul. 

-- The Koran

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

--Voltaire

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to
understand.

-- Baltasar Gracián

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly...
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery




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