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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Inspirational Quotes for Business and Work: Motivation


Have you ever had one of those days where you feel like the world is out to get you? Or you just feel like throwing in the towel on whatever you are doing or working on? Many times when we get that feeling, we tend to need a little motivation and often times we find that motivation through music. Here are some of our motivation songs. Many are musically unlikely choices, but are lyrically able to stir your deepest desires.

The Touch by Stan Bush
While it may seem like a throwback to yesteryear, The Touch by Stan Bush was originally featured in Transformers: The Movie but its lyrics has stood the test of time. With lyrics like “You’re at your best when when the road gets rough/You’ve been put to the test, but it’s never enough/You got the touch/You got the power” Yes they man be a bit cheesy, but they nonetheless illustrate that you have the ability to do what every you want.



Nothing’s Gonna Stand in Our Way by Spectre General

Another homage to Transformers: The Movie, this song by Spectre General has an uncanny way of keeping us motivated even on our darkest days.



Can you picture that? By Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem

As you can see there is a recurring theme this playlist. Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem bring a this motivation anthem with lyrics like “Fact is there’s nothin out there you can’t do/Yeah, even Santa Claus believes in you./Beat down the walls, begin, believe, behold, begat./Be a better drummer, be an up and comer. Can you picture that?” Even Santa Claus believes in you! What more motivation do you need? Can you picture that?



Git Up Git Out by Outcast ft Goodie Mob

“You need git up, git out and git somethin/How will you make it if you never even try/You need to git up, git out and git somethin/Cuz you and I got to do for you and I” That’s all that really needs to be said about this one.



It may not be the motivation that you're used to, but it is the type of motivation that will inspire you to believe in your dreams and embrace your destiny.


Quotations About Motivation

"Management is nothing more than motivating other people." --Lee Iacocca

"The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different." --Rick Pitino

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." --Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game." --Donald Trump

"The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it." --John Maxwell 

"There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning." --Pat Riley

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily." --Zig Ziglar

"The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it." --Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek." --Mario Andretti

"I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things." --J. B. S. Haldane

"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly." --Stephen R. Covey

Saturday, May 28, 2011

I'm going to blog about Mobile today. WHY??? IT'S EVERYWHERE :) Are you listening to your customers? How do you talk to your Customers? IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS, A SHIFT HAS TAKEN PLACE.


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Friday, May 6, 2011

Keep On Keepin’ On

Life is going to happen, whether you want it to or not. I think at one point or another perseverance has been a necessity to accomplish something in life, even to the most non-goal oriented person. Perseverance isn’t just continuing to pursue something, but continuing in spite of difficulties and obstacles. Maybe you were working towards something that you wanted, but others discouraged you from it. Or perhaps you wanted to accomplish something and life just so happened to throw bumps or maybe even potholes in the road to slow you down or distract you from reaching your goal. Some people jump over the hurdles thrown in their way, while others just quit, regardless of the size of the hurdle. What do you do? Do you quit at even the smallest sign of adversity, or do you keep your eyes fixed on the light at the end of the tunnel? I think most people have experienced both, I know I have. There have been times that I let life beat me down and I just gave up. Other times I’ve been relentless and pushed through the struggles. That’s where I’m at now. I’m pushing myself to keep on keepin’ on. And while I don’t have any large hurdles in my way at the moment, I’ve got to be prepared. Because for me to persevere, I have to expect the unexpected.










HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!! GOD BLESS

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Focus on what you want...Just do it & be amaze to discover the hidden treasures you have inside your heart.



Famous Motivational Quotes

Inspirational sayings, and words of Wisdom

Famous Quote #1
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
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Famous Quote #2
Everyone has problems, some are just better at hiding them.
Unknown
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Famous Quote #3
If we did all the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
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Famous Quotes #4
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Dennis P. Kimbro
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Motivational Quotes #5
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hahn
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Famous Quote #6
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benét
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Famous Quote #7
Only by going too far can one possibly find out how far one can go.
Jon dyer
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Famous Quote #8
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Famous Quote #9
Don't be afraid to fail because only through failure do you learn to succeed.
Unknown
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Famous Quote #10
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
Unknown

Inspirational Quotes #11
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself   Unknown

Famous Quote #12
The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.

Famous Quote #13
It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone- but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

Famous Quote #14
Always put yourself in the others shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.
 

Inspirational Quotes #15
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

Famous Quote #16
Many people will walk in and out or your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

Famous Quote #17
To handle yourself, use your head, To handle others, use your heart.

Famous Quote #18
He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses more; He who loses faith, loses all.

Famous Quote #19
If someone betrays you once, it's his fault. If he betrays you twice, it's your fault.

Famous Quotes #20
God Gives every bird it's food, But he does not throw it into it's nest.

My Favorite  Famous Inspirational Quotes
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. --
Robert Schuller

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you're doing. Love what you're doing. And believe in what you're doing. -- Will Rogers 
 
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."— Napoleon Hill 
 
"Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a mental state."  -- Mike Todd

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. -- Mark Caine 

When we can identify a problem and face the problem with confidence and enthusiasm, the solution is on the way.   -- Zig Zigler

--Unless You Change How You Are, You'll Always Have What You've Got-- Jim Rohn

If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else.  -- Brian Tracy

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. -- Robert Schuller

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you're doing. Love what you're doing. And believe in what you're doing. -- Will Rogers

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."— Napoleon Hil
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The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. -- Mark Caine 

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. Napoleon Hill

For every minute you are angry with someone, you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back. Napoleon Hill

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Presentaions- I'm scared to death to speak in public. I want to change this!!!

This is a article I found on presentations: I hope to overcome my fears.

Personal Branding Comes to the Rescue when Speaking Publicly


June 05, 2007

By Dan Schawbel and Lou Longo



Forty percent of all people are more afraid of public speaking than of dying. It is a national fear among students and professionals alike.



What can you do to alleviate this common stress factor? Start by investing time in building your brand and strengthening your confidence level. Everyone has a personal brand; they just need to discover, create and maintain it over time.



Personal branding defined: An individual's total perceived value, relative to competitors, as viewed by their audience.



The concept is broken into four elements: personality, appearance, competencies and differentiation. When these elements are integrated they become your core message. Your core message is unique to only you and is valued by members of your audience.



Personality: Your behavior, interpersonal communication skills and attitudes toward your audience.





Appearance: Your body language, clothing attire and overall posture.



Competencies: The technical skills that fulfill job requirements.



Differentiation: The factor that separates one individual from anther and leaves a lasting memory in the minds of the audience.



The personality element is most prominent when you are speaking publicly to either a small group or large audience. When speaking in front of an audience, your credibility is at stake and you will be judged based on members from your audience. The only way to truly linger in the minds of your audience is through personality and in this way you need to use the differentiation element to stand out from the hundreds of other voices they hear each day. This is a great opportunity to use your core message, with emphasis on personality and captivating your audience through creativity, real life examples or quotes. There are many great and talented public speakers out there, all having exceptional personal brands.



Have you ever listened to a speaker at an event or meeting that just blew you away? Did you walk out of there wondering where he or she got their training or how they were able to deliver such a great message? Then tell us, what was the message? You probably can’t remember? Four percent and 100 percent. A former colleague who always made us feel this way once gave me these numbers. He said, "People generally retain or remember four percent of the content of any presentation, speech or talk, but they always remember 100 percent of how they felt about it."



How can you have a similar affect on your audience regardless if it is five or 500 people? Prepare, relax, be yourself and then just do it. Some of the greatest football coaches will tell you that most games are won before the ball is even snapped and it is mainly a result of solid practice (preparation) and scouting (knowledge). If public speaking is either a new experience or not a currently a comfort zone, treat it like running or skiing. You do not want to start with a marathon or a black diamond, you want to ease your way in and soon you will be ready for anything.



Tips to remember.



1. Tell your audience a story that they can relate to and follow and do not be afraid to use yourself as an example when you can. Stories are not just for children—we all love a good book or movie especially when it grabs us early as we never want it to end. But it always does and then you are left with the memory of how you felt about it.



2. If you are not speaking about an experience or topic that you know flawlessly, be sure you have done your homework.



3. Be careful when quoting statistics unless you are absolutely sure about them or have the source as there could always be that one person that will try to challenge them during your talk.



4. Tell your story, your way, how you feel about it.



5. If you are not a data person then do not go up there with pie charts and graphs. It is not who you are and you cannot be something you are not either.



6. If you do not like reading from a script you can use cards. Cards are great for many people as it lets them keep their topics in good order and drive home key points.



You must decide what works best for you and then go out and do it. Think back to the very first time you ever drove a car when you were 15 or 16 years old. You were probably nervous, stiff and over-cautious and if you were like us, blew out a clutch while learning. Now, driving is natural and easy for you. Public speaking can be the same way. Whether it is a black diamond, exercising or driving a car, prepare, know the path, enjoy it and be yourself.



Dan Schawbel, personal branding spokesman, has motivated, advised and mentored both students and young professionals. He has preached, blogged and written articles for The New York Times and The Association of Career Development. Visit http://personalbrandingblog.com.

Lou Longo, public speaking expert, teaches people and groups about life. His professional and personal experiences provide people with examples, lessons and recommendations on how to "Inspire First" so that the results you are looking for will naturally follow. And for when they don't, he'll show people how that can be valuable for you too. Visit http://enlivenfirst.com.

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

LOVE YOUR LIFE

SMILE AND BE YOURSELF!!!!



READ A BOOK!!!! It's ok,,,I have a great sense of humor. LAUGH OUT LOUD!!!





Do something you LOVE!!! I enjoy riding motorcycles!!!




Act SILLY!!! WHO CARES WHAT PEOPLE THINK!!!




Dance and HAVE FUN!!!!


I love Angels!!! A collection of Angel Quotes.



I'm a cool Angel:)




Angel Quotes
We feel isolated and lonely, and it's not necessary. Each of us has a guardian angel who works with us as much as we will allow...

Eileen Elias Freeman, Angelic Healing

...but we all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels...

William Shakespeare, King Henry VIII

God assures us that his angels are always nearby, ready to help. This is what matters.

Timothy Jones, Celebration of Angels

Angels (it's said) would be often unable to tell whether they moved among living or dead. The eternal torrent whirls all the ages through either realm for ever, and sounds above their voices in both.

Rainer Marie Rilke, The First Elegy

When we freely forgive others who have hurt us, our angel brings us a special blessing of love from God.

Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels' Little Instruction Book

Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

Helen Keller

There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.

St. Thomas Aquinas

"I believe most at-home accidents happen in the bathroom because our Guardian Angels give us our privacy".

Cathy L. Poulin Aug 06

And whoever disbelieves in God and his angels and his books and his messengers and the last day, he indeed strays far away.

The Koran

It is impossible to see the Angel unless you first have a notion of it.

James Hillman, The Soul's Code

For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.

Psalm 91:11

So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord.

Emanuel Swedenborg

It was first whispered among the Seraphim and Cherubim, and then said aloud among the Angels and Archangels, that he didn't even look like an angel!

Charles Tazewell, The Littlest Angel

Keep your good deeds for others a secret, just as your Angel works behind the scenes in your own life.

Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels' Little Instruction Book

An Angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision, and by bringing within his reach some truth which the Angel himself contemplates.

St. Thomas Aquinas, The Bliss of the Way

Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.

Billy Graham

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

James Hillman, The Soul's Code

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps children's innocence, wherever it comes from, contributes to the fact that they seem to see angels more often.

John Ronner, Know Your Angels

Give of yourself as the Angels do, and wonderful things will come to you.

Ramadan, 1

And whoever disbelieves in God and his angels and his books and his messengers and the last day, he indeed strays far away.

The Koran 4:36

I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.

Emanuel Swedenborg

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

Socrates

Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you.

Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels' Little Instruction Book

If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.

John Ruskin

What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love?

William Wordsworth

So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be.

John Donne

For every soul, there is a guardian watching it.

The Koran

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counsellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian angel.

Joseph Addision

All we know of what they do above, is that they happy are, and that they love.

Edmund Waller

He will give his angels charge of you, to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.

Psalm 91:10-11

Our human weakness is protected by the assistance of the Angels and…in all our perils, provided faith remain with us, we are defended by the aid of spiritual powers.

Gregory Nyssa

The benevolent guardian angel of the 1940s was, of course, Superman. While a cloak replaced the wings, this expression of the all powerful guardian archetype, who battled the evil dragons of satanic violence, greed and injustice, replaced the Archangel Michael in the popular imagination.

Malcolm Godwin, Angels: An Endangered Species

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

Henry Ward Beecher

Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.

Mortimer J. Adler, The Angels and Us

Angels come to help and guide us in as many guises as there are people who need their assistance. Sometimes we see their ethereal, heavenly shadow, bright with light and radiance. Sometimes we only feel their nearness or hear their whisper. And sometimes they look no different from ourselves...

"I believe most at-home accidents happen in the bathroom because our Guardian Angels give us our privacy".

Cathy L. Poulin Aug 06

Eileen Elias Freeman, Touched by Angels

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.

St. John Chrysostom

Experiences with Angels do not occur to people by chance. There is a sort of run-up to the experience.

H.C. Moolenburgh, Meetings With Angels

In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Time is man's angel.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Death of Wallenstein

Contemporary Angel accounts are frequently about unpredictable encounters that have personal significance in the lives of otherwise average people. Most accounts involve some wonderful or mysterious being who appeared when most needed and who was usually only recognized as an Angel in retrospect.

Ruth J. Moro, Angels in Our Midst - A Naturalistic Embrace of the Miraculous

It is often stated that when an Angel descends to the earth, it brings with it a part of the light of the heavens, thus perhaps explaining the strong association of white to represent that light.

James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver, Angels A to Z

Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate, gentle, and feminine, until Angels are shown as androgynous or even distinctly female.

David Connolly, In Search of Angels

One thing is clear: Angels are far more than projections of the divine mind or literary devices. They are real, personal beings, even if their corporeality is totally different from ours.

Eileen Elias Freeman, Touched by Angels

The Angel is one of those Articles of Faith as unshakable as our belief in the existence of God, an atom, or the ill luck of the number 13.

Malcolm Godwin, Angels: An Endangered Species

One thing you can say for Guardian Angels: they guard. They give warning when danger approaches.

Emily Hahn, Breath of God

I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again...

Wallace Stevens, Angel Surrounded by Paysans

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

G. K. Chesterton

Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an Angel.

St. Augustine

Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another.

Martin Luther, The Table Talk of Martin Luther

And the Angel said, "I have learned that every man lives, not through care of himself, but by love."

Leo Tolstoy

In the Roman Catholic Church calendar, October 2 is the day for honoring guardian angels.

John Ronner, Know Your Angels

Interest in angels has traditionally been associated with millennialism, especially when the millennium is viewed as emerging in the wake of a God-directed apocalypse. This is largely because of the importance of angels in relevant Scripture. Angels become significant as the central actors in the drama of the final days.

James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver, Angels A to Z

Angels encourage us by guiding us onto a path that will lead to happiness and hope.

Andy Lakey

Angels are principally the guardians of our spirits. Their function is not to do our work for us, but to help us do it ourselves, by God's grace.

Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels' Little Instruction Book

Angels can maintain anonymity as long as they need to, pretending to be mortal when the occasion calls for such a masquerade.

Emily Hahn, Breath of God

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

Mortimer Adler

The Christian Bible offers some 300 references to Angels.

James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver, Angels A to Z

In their role as celestial servants to humans on earth, Angels act variously as guardians, guides, teachers, truth-givers and comforters, protectors of the righteous, punishers of the wicked, and more.

David Connolly, In Search of Angels

Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witnesses to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces.

F. Forrester Church, Entertaining Angels

The world of demons, fallen Angels, is very real - a fact we need to know. We have to face up to this terrible reality, so that we do not fall unsuspectingly into their hands and come under their tyranny.

Basilea Schlink

Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.

Martin Luther

Gabriel is a unique archangel in the sense that it is almost certain that she is the only female in the higher echelons.

James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver, Angels A to Z

Angels speak. They appear and reappear. They feel with apt sense of emotion. While Angels may become visible by choice, our eyes are not conducted to see them ordinarily any more than we can see the dimensions of a nuclear field, the structure of atoms, or the electricity that flows through copper wiring.

Billy Graham, Angels: God's Secret Agents

And I saw another Angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.

Revelations 14:6

The traditional Christian belief is that eternal God was alone in the beginning. Then, He created Angels, next the universe, and finally, humankind. However, some early Jewish writers thought that God creates Angels every time He breathes.

John Ronner, Know Your Angels

Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.

Martin Luther

The entire hierarchy of Angels can best be described as an endlessly vast sphere of beings who surround an unknowable centerpoint which is called God.

Malcolm Godwin, Angels: An Endangered Species

Angels walk upright, speak Hebrew, and are endowed with understanding; they can fly in the air, move from one end of the world to another, and foretell the future. They have the shape of man, but consist half of fire and half of water.

Encyclopedia Judaica

Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defence, I cannot venture certainly to affirm; not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that all the angels together with one consent watch over our salvation.

John Calvin

A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.

Sophy Burnham, A Book of Angels

Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.

Edward Young, Night Thoughts

The aura of light that surrounds them, especially the haloes that encircle their heads, suggests a quite different role. Their wings betoken their coming to mankind as messengers, but their haloes symbolize that they come from heaven which is their home.

Mortimer J. Adler, Angels and Us

The wisdom of the ages teaches that each individual, whether believer or not, good or bad, old or young, sick or well, rich or poor, has a personal Guardian Angel with him or her at every moment of life's journey.

Janice T. Connell, Angel Power

Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they can communicate without speech, in thought.

John of Damascus

I saw Gabriel, like a maiden, or like the moon amongst the stars. His hair was like a woman's, falling in long tresses...He is the most beautiful of Angels...His face is like a red rose.

Ruzbehan Baqli

Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too.

Billy Graham

Heaven comes to people - and their loved ones - when they are dying. It is not uncommon for angels to appear when people are on the edge of death, and people who have had near-death experiences often describe feelings of indescribable peace. Angels.

Gary Kinnaman, Angels Dark and Light

The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man's flaw is that he can deteriorate; and his virtue is that he can improve.

The Talmud

Somehow the Angels comfort me whenever I have tears...And always they encourage me to overcome my fears...I tell them all of my troubles when they seem too much to bear...And I put my faith and confidence in their almighty care...

Martina Tarandek, "Angels' Prayer"

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

Matthew 23:30

A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why. But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good.

St. Thomas Aquinas

The higher orders [of angels] are presumed to be closer in their nature to God and to function in roles that serve God more directly than the lower orders, which tend to the administration of the physical universe and the service of humankind. Some orders are associated with particular divine qualities - Seraphim with Love, Cherubim with Wisdom, Thrones with Judgment.

David Connolly, In Search of Angels

May the Archangel Raphael accompany us along the way, and may we return to our homes in peace, joy, and health.

Catholic prayer

But angels help us remember, when the urgencies screaming for attention make us forget, when we feel so estranged by stress or worldliness that we miss the many-splendoured things. They remind us to look beyond our everyday circumstance or stress.

Timothy Jones, Celebration of Angels

Angelica, Angelica archangelica, is the herb of the angels. One legend regarding angelica says that in 1665, a community of monks, whose members were dying of the plague, was saved when one of the monks had a dream in which an angel told them to eat angelica. As soon as they chewed the plant they were cured.

James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver, Angels A to Z

Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend.

Billy Graham

Most people in the deepest part of their memory, hold the angels in great esteem.

John T. Connell, Angel Power

Greater association with the Angels lifts our minds from ourselves and focuses them upon ways and means by which we too may assist in establishing God's Plan.

Flower A. Newhouse, Rediscovering the Angels

Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become Angels when they are sent. For the name Angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger.

St. Augustine

When humans face testings and tragedy, they should remember the Angels who are always standing ready to lend their celestial assistance, comfort, and counsel.

Flower A. Newhouse, Rediscovering the Angels

Angel Energy follows God's Laws and can only be used for the greatest good for all.

Belinda Womack, Angels Guide

How do you know if an angel has crossed your path? Sometimes you don't, because angels often appear as coincidences. That is, they seem like chance events, but they are really part of God's carefully orchestrated plan for your life.

Gary Kinnaman, Angels Dark and Light

Angels can help us understand what intuition means in a personal way. Angels are actually in charge of a large part of our intuitive self. Viewing intuition from the perspective of angel consciousness, we can say that intuition is our way of tapping into a higher power for guidance and awareness.

Terry Lynn Taylor, Guardians of Hope: The Angel Guide to Personal Growth

So far we still don't know whether angels are ethereal beings of light without substance or if they take a solid human form with real wings which actually enable them to fly.

Malcolm Godwin, Angels: An Endangered Species

Whatever you put your attention on in this life will increase in your life. As you put your attention on angels, they will begin increasingly to make their presence known to you.

Denise Linn, Sacred Space

It is not righteousness that you turn your faces toward east or west; but it is righteous to believe in Allah and the Last Day, and the angels and the Book and the messengers.

The Koran

Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

Have you ever considered that, just perhaps, the reason you have gotten as far as you have is because of the invisible work of anonymous Angels? Good strangers in the night?

Gary Kinnaman, Angels Dark and Light

You don't need a formal prayer or invocation to call the Angels to your side. Simply think, "Angels, please surround me," and they are there.

Doreen Virtue, Divine Guidance

September 29 is the feast day for the three Angels mentioned by name in the Bible - Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.

John Ronner, Know Your Angels

He who has fed a stranger may have fed an Angel.

The Talmud

God created the Angels to serve Him and His people. If there is anything we can learn from the Bible about Angels, it's that they are real. Angels exist.

Gary Kinnaman, Angels Dark and Light

Remember, angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witnesses to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces.

F. Forrester Church, Entertaining Angels

But we can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, "Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith." The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance.

Joan Wester Anderson, Where Angels Walk

It must be recess in heaven if St. Peter is letting his angels out.

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Guardian angels are perhaps the most popular kind, probably because we all know how fragile life can be. We desperately need protection from unexpected circumstances and unseen dangers. Just the thought of good angels hovering around us gives people a feeling of safety!

Gary Kinnaman, Angels Dark and Light

When we are overcome by some evil will, should we not tremble before the presence of the choirs of angels that surround us?

St. Hilary

Angels live no place, as God lives no place. They live in the space of eternity, in the center of our hearts, and sometimes I think we each serve as the channels and angels of God, touched by wings of silence, pushed to angelic acts.

Sophy Burnham, A Book of Angels

The minute you speak to your angel for the first time, you will never be alone again, because our angels are always with us. No matter where you are as you read this, you are surrounded by angels. Your room, your office, your garden, are filled with angelic presences.

Eileen Elias Freeman, Angelic Healing

Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events or violate the free will of human beings.

Gary Kinnaman, Angels Dark and Light

Angels are inseparable friends, who bring strength and consolation to those who include them in their lives. In truth, angels are our best friends.

Janice T. Connell, Angel Power

The truth of angels is they have many shapes, forms, sizes, appearances, and duties. You will see angels as you need to see them. Sometimes you may see only a burst of light in a darkened room or a cloudy form around a person's body.

Barbara Mark and Trudy Griswold, Angelspeake: How to Talk with Your Angel

Becoming aware of our angels' hidden presence in our lives is not difficult or arduous, but it is subtle and requires great patience.

Eileen Elias Freeman, Touched by Angels

Your two guardian angels are always with you. The other angels come and go as we need them.

Doreen Virtue, Divine Guidance

The angels see you as dazzling young diamonds which are being polished to perfection.

Elsa Joy Bailey, "Angelbytes"

Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

St. Augustine

We have been so long in a downward spin. The angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with our spirits we can. We are meant to ascend, to transmute the negative mass of the world's corrupted thought forms. No one asked us to stay so long, away from heaven, away from joy.

Marianne Williamson, Illuminata

The angels as the guardians of men are set over men as instructors and monitors. This shows the relationship that is to exist between them. Man's attitude is to be one of obedience and subjection. He is to follow the lead of the angels, and consequently some reverence is already implied in the very relationship that exists between man and angel.

Tertullian

It is at the hour of death that the good angel shows the greatest zeal in protecting and defending the soul committed to his care, invoking often the assistance of other angels against the wiles and fury of Satan.

Pascal Parente, Beyond Space: A Book about Angels

Ask your angels to stay as near to you as they can; to help keep your vision clear and your presence simple, so in all the days to come there will be a radiance and Glory in your spirit.

Karen Goldman, Angel Voices

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse De Lamartine

I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would take me with them.

St. Joan of Arc

The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

Edward Burne-Jones

Angels assist us in connecting with a powerful yet gentle force, which encourages us to live life to its fullest.

Denise Linn, Sacred Space

Unaccustomed to recognizing any power greater than his own, Western man, in his need to find an answer to his contradictions, may be forced to his knees in an inner struggle with the angel of the Lord, who could be the bringer of the missing and saving element.

Theodora Ward, Men and Angels

In the strictest definition, an angel is a superior being living in the spirit world - standing between humans and God.

John Ronner, Know Your Angels

People of goodwill long to know angels, to enjoy their presence, power, and protection. The experience is quite personal and different for each person.

Janice T. Connell, Angel Power

Angels will not run your life. No angel will intrude on your free will. They cannot interfere.

Barbara Mark and Trudy Griswold, Angelspeake: How to Talk with Your Angel

Our private thoughts are known only to God. The secret thoughts of all of us are not known by angels or demons or one another. Every prayer, however, is heard instantly by our Guardian Angel.

Janice T. Connell, Angel Power

Methods of Invocation - Colors to Be Worn
Guardian angels of the home - Rose and soft green
Healing angels - Deep sapphire blue
Angels of maternity and birth - Sky blue
Ceremonial angels - White
Angels of music - White
Nature angels - Apple green
Angels of beauty and art - Yellow

Geoffrey Hodson, The Brotherhood of Angels and Men