My parents told me I’d point to a bed of flowers and say ‘Pink. Pretty,’ before I knew any other words.

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"Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star."

- Joni Mitchell

Awareness

"Sometimes the light can be so hard to find. At least the moon at the window, the thieves left that behind."

- Joni Mitchell

Awareness

"Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."

- Joni Mitchell

Awareness

"It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on."

- Joni Mitchell

Hope

"Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell."

- Joni Mitchell

Adversity

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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

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"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

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"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

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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