Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

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"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."

- Joseph Joubert

Love

"Children need models rather than critics."

- Joseph Joubert

Awareness

"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."

- Joseph Joubert

Compassion

"To teach is to learn twice over."

- Joseph Joubert

Inspiration

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."

- Joseph Joubert

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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

Inspiration

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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