“Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.”
"A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place."
- Amy Tan
Love
"We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming—well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate."
- Amy Tan
Hope
"Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever."
- Amy Tan
Hope
"We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate."
- Amy Tan
Hope
"When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it’s all part of making sense of who I am."
- Amy Tan
Self-awareness
"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