The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

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"The earth is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

- W.B. Yeats

Awareness

"Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

Creativity

"but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one’s dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps."

- W.B. Yeats

Reflection

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

Education

"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

Education

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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