"For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?"

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Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#Blessed Quotes #Angel Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.”
“Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.”
“Many poets...write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.”
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
“I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.”
“We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.”
“What occurred to me on [â€˜The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttonâ€™], and also with the passing of her mother, is that there's going to come a time when I'm not going to get to be with this person anymore. I'm not going to get to be with my children anymore. Or friends, people I love and respect. And so, if we have a flare-up, it evaporates now. I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.”

Source : "Brad Pitt reveals he DID fall in love with Angelina Jolie on set of Mr And Mrs Smith while still married to Jennifer Aniston" by Jody Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. December 11, 2008.
“Keep feeding your faith until your doubts starves to death.”

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