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    Alex Garland
    “Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.”
    ― Alex Garland, The Beach
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    Rob MacGregor
    “Henry Jones: I didn't know you could fly a plane!
    Indiana Jones: Fly -- yes, land -- no.”
    ― Rob MacGregor, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
    tags: humor, movies
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    Shiloh Walker
    “Damned planes. Too confining, too noisy—too fucking high in the air.”
    ― Shiloh Walker, Hunter's Need
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    Golda Meir
    “Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.”
    ― Golda Meir, As good as Golda;: The warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister
    tags: humor, inevitability, old-age
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    Randall Munroe
    “Your plane would fly pretty well, except it would be on fire the whole time, and then it would stop flying, and then stop being a plane.”
    ― Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: an-open-mind, an-open-world, open-mindedness, opening-your-mind, travel, traveling
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    John Irving
    “He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.”
    ― John Irving, The Cider House Rules
    tags: youth-age
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    Doris Lessing
    “There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
    ― Doris May Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, storytelling, truth, truth-telling
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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
    tags: forgetting, lover, oblivion, opiate, sleep
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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. Clare sighs, turns her head, and is quiet. Hi, honey. I'm home. I'm home.”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: commercialization, friends, friendship, reflection, time, understanding
    169 likes

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    Jarod Kintz
    “I’m thinking ahead to how I’ll be thinking back to me thinking ahead in this moment.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I just think of people," she continued, "whether they seem right where they are and fit into a picture. I don't mind if they don't do anything. I don't see why they should; in fact it always astonishes me when people do anything.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
    tags: action, astonishing, reflection
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    James Rozoff
    “There is a third choice besides being busy and killing time, something profound.”
    ― James Rozoff
    tags: quietude, reflection
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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted. Life is short.”
    ― Erich Maria Marque
    tags: inspirational, reflection, time
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  • #18
    “The middle of the week is a great time to reflect on what was done and still needs to be done before the end of the week.”
    ― David Dweck
    tags: hump-day, reflection, the-david-dweck, week
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    Johan Harstad
    “God isn't here. God doesn't even know about this place”
    ― Johan Harstad, 172 Hours on the Moon
    tags: horror, isolation, reflection, space
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    Joe Plumeri
    “Maybe every once in a while we can take a break from doing everything faster and quicker to reflect on who we are and where we are going.”
    ― Joe Plumeri, The Power of Being Yourself: A Game Plan for Success--by Putting Passion into Your Life and Work
    tags: breathe, inspirational-quote, meditate, motion, reflection, reflection-on-life, slow-down, time
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    Joanie B. Connell
    “Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.”
    ― Joanie Connell, Flying Without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life
    tags: bad-ideas, good-ideas, ideas, introspection, reflection
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    Mehmet Murat ildan
    “When there is a beautiful reflection, we know not where to look, to the reflection or to the reflected!”
    ― Mehmet Murat ildan
    tags: reflection
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  • #23
    “In the shade of words sits life itself.”
    ― Aisha Mirza
    tags: life, poetry, reflection, words
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: inspirational
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: antoine-de-saint-exupery
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    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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    Jack Kerouac
    “I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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    Jack Kerouac
    “because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: travel, wanderlust
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: life, travel
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