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You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?

Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

The best we can do is live our highest right, gracefully as we can, and let the Principle of Coincidence take it from there. Seven

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?

How many of us count fictional characters, or those we've never met, among our closest friends? My hand's up.

Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.

Finally I came to think that may be everything we need to know,ever,about anything,is already within us,waiting till we call for it.

If you bind too strongly to things and people, when they disappear, it will not go maybe even a part of ourselves?

Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

How is it we're the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

The way to tell if your job is done: if you're alive, you've got a job.

Build an inner place to protect your truth.

This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend ... No such thing as luck.

Every problem in your life carries a gift inside it.

You're master of what you've lived,
artisan at what you're living,
amateur at what's next to live.

The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty.

An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

Perspective - Use It or Lose It.

One way to pick a future is to believe it's inevitable.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but ...

And with these gone from his thought, he lived a long

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

True love stories never have endings.

I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.

What'll be your biography? "At that point, life seemed pretty bleak. Then (insert your name) did a surprising thing...

You can't solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems solved.

The simplest things are often the truest.

We don't have rights until we claim them.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.

Are you saying I can fly?" "I say you are free.

In half a century of challenge and learning and trial-and-error, each of us had struggled from hard times to a present lovely beyond our dreams.

Everything in this book may be wrong.

OK. ... A blue feather." He looked at me blankly. "Richard? A blue feather?

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If you want to be with Rae, aren't you already there?

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance.

Of course there's destiny, but destiny doesn't push you where you don't want to go. You're the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.

Real love stories never have endings.

Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.

There was part of me listening that didn't think what I said was fiction. I was making up a true story.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world
even if what is published is not true.

As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

Don't fear change. It's always for the best.

There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster.

Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.

We choose, ourselves, to be hurt or not to be hurt, no matter what. Us who decides. Nobody else.

No, Jonathan, there is no such place. Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.

Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

You've sacrificed your entire life to be who you are today. Was it worth it?

The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed.

We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.

For Leslie who taught me to fly

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

This disaster is the chance you prayed for, your wish come true.

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

True enjoy stories never ever have endings.

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

Don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do ...

Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Civilization ... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Mine's a free life, but it does get lonely sometimes.

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

Whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it's not finished yet.

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got
responsibilities.

Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.

The only law is one which leads to freedom

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.

Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them,