A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

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"Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished."

- Madeleine L'Engle

Love

"Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love."

- Madeleine L'Engle

Love

"Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light."

- Madeleine L'Engle

Awareness

"If we aren’t capable of being hurt, we aren’t capable of feeling joy."

- Madeleine L'Engle

Awareness

"If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you."

- Madeleine L'Engle

Self-awareness

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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