"The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive."

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Source : William Wharton (2012). “Birdy”, p.31, HarperCollins UK

William Wharton

#Air Quotes #Space Quotes #Alive Quotes

“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”
“The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?" "It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth Vaders without the mask!" "They're Benedictine monks!" Nellie exclaimed. "They're men of peace! Most of them are under vows of silence!" "Yeah, well, not anymore," Dan told her. "They cursed us out pretty good. I don't know the language, but some things you don't have to translate.”
“We're taught to value ourselves not by the good we do but by the shoes we wear.”
“A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.”

Source : "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.
“You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.”

Source : "The Storm Over the University". The New York Review of Books, www.ditext.com. December 06, 1990.
“You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.”

Source : Gary Shteyngart (2014). “Little Failure: A Memoir”, p.275, Random House
“In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.”
“If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Aug 12, 2011

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