Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

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"What we feel, think and are determined in large part by our viscera and ductless glands."

- Aldous Huxley

Awareness

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

- Aldous Huxley

Awareness

"To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one’s own, is ever the beginning of one’s real ethical orientation."

- Aldous Huxley

Compassion

"Experience Is Not What Happens To You, It Is What You Do With What Happens To You."

- Aldous Huxley

Personal Growth

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."

- Aldous Huxley

Personal Growth

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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