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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.
The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.
An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown
Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.
The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.
It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.
We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.
Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?
Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.
How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.
Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.
That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.
It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?
For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.
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.
How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?
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.
I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.
Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?
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.
Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.
I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.
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.
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?
You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.
Two words: Love leads. Listen to that ring of love within. If we follow that leading of love we'll be guaranteed an adventurous, positive, joyful life.
Whatever it is that calls us, that's our path. And as we walk that path, we have a chance to shine forth who we are. It affects other people around us.
When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'
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.
Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.
Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don't have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.
The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.” “No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?
Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.
Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.
By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become.
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.
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.