Angelo Patri famous quotes

In one sense there is no death. The life of a soul on earth lasts beyond departure. You will always feel that life touching yours, that voice speaking to you. He/She lives on in your life and in the lives of all others that knew him/her.
-- Angelo Patri

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The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.
-- Angelo Patri

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Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.
-- Angelo Patri

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This fathering is a man's second chance at living.
-- Angelo Patri

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Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.

I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.

I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise

I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music