Quotes by Pilots - Page 2

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect either angels or gods....I don't believe in God. I believe in man - his strength, his possibilities, his reason.

Gherman Titov

It's only as bad as you make it.

Benjamin J. Carey

Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

Elizabeth Wein

A grunting nocturnal animal, a machine of flesh and blood who wasn’t ashamed of himself. But he never found redemption.

Robert Karjel

I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.

Richard Bach

The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.

Elizabeth Wein

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one famiy grow up under the same roof

Richard Bach

It's puzzling to me that so many self-help gurus urge people to visualize victory, and stop there. Some even insist that if you wish for good things long enough and hard enough, you'll get them - and, conversely, that if you focus on the negative, you actually invite bad things to happen. Why make yourself miserable worrying? Why waste time getting ready for disasters that may never happen? Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive. Likewise, coming up with a plan of action isn't a waste of time if it gives you peace of mind. While it's true that you may wind up getting ready for something that never happens, if the stages are at all high, it's worth it.

Chris Hadfield

I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't want to think about it.

Elizabeth Wein

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

Richard Bach

A moment later Jonathan’s body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. “Don’t let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I’m a seagull. I like to fly, maybe…

Richard Bach

You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

Richard Bach

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

Richard Bach

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

Richard Bach

There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

Elizabeth Wein

I don't want truth, Palmer; I want smoke!" Captain Ahearn: Waiting For Willie Pete

Byron Edgington

Look at me!’ I screeched. ‘Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! You’re not questioning me now, this isn’t your work, I’m not an enemy agent spewing wireless code! I’m just a minging Scots slag screaming insults at your daughter! So enjoy yourself and watch! Think of Isolde! Think of Isolde and watch!

Elizabeth Wein

But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.

Elizabeth Wein

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

Richard Bach

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Richard Bach

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

Richard Bach

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Richard Bach

If you're scared, do something.

Elizabeth Wein

Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones.

Chris Hadfield

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Richard Bach

Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't know how.

Chris Hadfield

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

Richard Bach

Whatever harm I would do to another, I shall do first to myself.As I respect and am kind to myself, so shall I respect and be kind to peers, to elders, to kits.I claim for others the freedom to live as they wish, to think and believe as they will. I claim that freedom for myself.I shall make each choice and live each day to my highest sense of right.

Richard Bach

Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the people who were watching saw her skirts moving about and they thought her headless body was trying to get itself to its feet. But the movement turned out to be her dog, which she had carried to the block with her, hidden in her skirts. Mary Stuart is supposed to have faced her execution with grace and courage (she wore a scarlet chemise to suggest she was being martyred), but I don’t think she could have been so brave if she had not secretly been holding tight to her Skye terrier, feeling his warm, silky fur against her trembling skin.

Elizabeth Wein

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

Richard Bach

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Richard Bach

Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.

Richard Bach

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Richard Bach

Funerals aren't scheduled.

Benjamin J. Carey

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

Richard Bach

Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.

Richard Bach

Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?

Elizabeth Wein

How do you ever hold on to anybody?

Elizabeth Wein

She gave a low and delighted chuckle. Her eyes were black as a moonless December night and reflected the electric lights like stars.

Elizabeth Wein

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

Elizabeth Wein

If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.

Richard Bach

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

Benjamin J. Carey

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

Richard Bach

Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.

Richard Bach

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Richard Bach

Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become.

Chris Hadfield

The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.

Richard Bach

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

Richard Bach

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

Richard Bach

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Richard Bach

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

Richard Bach

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

Richard Bach

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.

Richard Bach

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

Richard Bach

I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

Richard Bach

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