"Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion."
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"Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!"
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"The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own."
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"The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change."
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"One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin."
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"You wait a lifetime to meet someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that someone, all along, has been you."
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"There is a kind of silver spiderweb that's spun around the world, and the strands of that web are certain loves and certain understandings. And if we follow those, and if we walk those strands, we're going to meet others at the intersections who have been walking the same way across this web. And when we meet, there's a kind of "I know who you are.""
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"The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead."
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"The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love."
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"Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall."
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"If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?"
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"She didn't mean to be sexy that moment, but even a winter nightgown couldn't hide that lovely outline. When will I outgrow my simple-minded fascination with the form she had happened to choose for her body? Never, I thought"
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"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts."
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"Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them."
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"The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen."
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"Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead."
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"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!"
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"Learning is finding out what you already know."
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"For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices? It took a second to settle down: I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool."
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"Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates."
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