All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

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"Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully."

- Albert Camus

Awareness

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

- Albert Camus

Awareness

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

- Albert Camus

Awareness

"In the depths of midwinter I finally learned there was an invisible summer."

- Albert Camus

Hope

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

- Leonardo DaVinci

Inspiration

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."

- Socrates

Inspiration

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."

- Wilbur Wright

Inspiration

"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."

- Charles A. Lindbergh

Inspiration

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Inspiration