And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

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"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power."

- Maya Angelou

Love

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

Courage

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."

- Maya Angelou

Courage

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

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"The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion and compassion and humor and style and generosity and kindness."

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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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