Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky.

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"If you wished to be loved, love."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love

"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Compassion

"For it would then be true friendship, such as no hope, no fear, no self-interest can sever. That is a friendship that stays with people until they die—and that people die for."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Compassion

"Wherever there is a human being, there is the opportunity for a kindness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Compassion

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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