"There's so much to learn! And just when we think, "I've got it. I really understand what's going on," we're shown a whole new stage set on which to play."
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"I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock."
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"Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up on the mountain ridges where very few people have been I have thought back to what every flyer knows. That there is this special world in which we dwell that's not marked by boundaries, it's not a map. We're not hedged about with walls and desks. So often in an office the very worst thing that can happen is you could drop your pencil. Out there's a reminder that are a lot worse things, and a lot greater rewards."
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"That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end."
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"Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar we get feathers in our mouth. It's worth it. What pleasure to phrase an idea, even in child's words, slowly, and sail it across the gulf in another language to a different-speaking human being!"
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"There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside."
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"Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however."
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"Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true."
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"A Name Is A Label, And As Soon As There Is A Label, The Ideas Disappear And Out Comes Label-Worship And Label-Bashing, And Instead Of Living By A Theme Of Ideas, People Begin Dying For Labels... And The Last Thing The World Needs Is Another Religion."
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"Perspective - Use It or Lose It."
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"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."
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"Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance."
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"Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you."
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"The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?"
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"It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life."
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"We know nothing until intuition agrees."
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"There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years."
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"Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad."
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"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it."
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"I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love."
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