"My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home."
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"Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying."
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"To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance."
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"Like most writers, we like to find what we know and pass it along to anyone who cares. When that's done, as soon as we've said the best we can say, there's nothing else about us that's remotely interesting to anybody else, and we go back behind the walls. We can be intimate in books, we can be intimate in talks, but then we need time to be alone."
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"When we're born on this planet, we're taught to believe that what we see is real. But as we grow in understanding, we recognize first that we've been hypnotized by that reaching, and second that it's within our power to de-hypnotize ourselves. And as we do that, the illusion appears to change, to come in harmony with what we most value. If we most value love, we will begin to see more and more love and joy and adventure-creative expressions of life shimmering everywhere around us."
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"I'll quote the truth wherever I find it thank you."
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"I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil."
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"We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own."
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"Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but..."
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"When we put up with any situation we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself."
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"Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream."
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"Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived."
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"Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another."
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"Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know."
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"Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask."
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"Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love."
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"An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding."
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"We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight."
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"Whatever We Hold in Thought Comes True in Our Experience; Like Attracts Like; we experiment with the Law of Changing Appearances, to make our outer world reflect our inner."
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"What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?"
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