Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

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"A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope."

- Howard Thurman

Hope

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive."

- Howard Thurman

Self-awareness

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive."

- Howard Thurman

Motivation

"During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism."

- Howard Thurman

Adversity

"Ask not what the world needs; ask what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

- Howard Thurman

Aspirations

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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