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"If you're looking for the key
to the universe I've got some good news
and some bad news. The bad news: there is no key to the universe.
The
good news: it was never locked."
- Author Unknown
"A ship in the harbor is
safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
- Author Unknown
"It is never too late to be
what you might have been."
- George Eliot
"When you get to the place
where you would worry...stop and Pray."
- Edgar Cayce
"There is an art
or, rather, a knack to flying.
The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Pick a nice day and try it. The first part is easy.
All it requires is the simple ability to throw yourself forward with all your
weight,
and the willingness not to mind that it's going to hurt.
That is, it's going to hurt if you fail to miss the ground.
Most people fail to miss the ground, and if they are really trying properly,
the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard.
Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.
One problem is that you have to miss the ground accidentally.
It's no good deliberately intending to miss the ground because you won't.
You have to have your attention suddenly distracted by something else when
you're halfway there,
so that you are no longer thinking about falling,
or about the ground,
or about how much it's going to hurt if you fail to miss it.
It is notoriously difficult to prize your attention away from these three things
during the split second you have at your disposal.
Hence most people's failure, and their eventual disillusionment with this
exhilarating sport.
If, however, you are lucky enough to have your attention momentarily distracted
at the crucial moment by,
say, a gorgeous pair of legs or a bomb going off in your vicinity,
or by suddenly spotting an extremely rare species of beetle crawling along a
nearby twig,
then in your astonishment you will miss the ground completely
and remain bobbing just a few inches above it in what may seem to be a slightly
foolish manner.
This is a moment for a superb and delicate concentration. ...
Do not listen to what anybody says to you at this point because they are
unlikely to say anything helpful.
They are most likely to say something along the lines of 'Good God, you can't
possibly be flying!'
It is vitally important not to believe them or they will suddenly be right."
- Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
"May you live all the days of
your life."
- Jonathan Swift
"Life is what happens while you
are busy making other plans."
- John Lennon
"Live as if you excepted your
Prayers to be answered."
- Edgar Cayce
The voyage of discovery lies not in
finding new landscapes,
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Always remember that you're
unique . . . just like everyone else.
-Author Unknown
Within you is the divine
capacity to manifest and attract all that you need or desire.
-Wayne Dyer
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