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• When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

  Helen Hayes

  Book

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  Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  "Dreams" l. 1 (1929)

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• We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Beautiful, Faith

  Kurt Vonnegut (2016). “If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By”, p.131, RosettaBooks

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• Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting.

  Rumi

  Tired, Feelings, Legs

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.72, Penguin UK

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• There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Two, Roots

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• Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Ignorance, Knowledge

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.521

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• When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Freedom, Nice, Air

  Chogyam Trungpa (2013). “The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness (volume 3): The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume Three”, p.761, Shambhala Publications

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• You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

  William J. Clinton

  Pigs, Eagles, Political

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1187, Best Books on

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• Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Mean, Earth

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

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• How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Coffee, Sea, Knives

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.253, Collector's Library

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• We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Feet, Progress, Degrees

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.273

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• Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Nature, Birds Wings, People

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• There are only two words with four letters which can make us fly: Wing and Love.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Two, Four

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• A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Rain, Cutting

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.

  Khalil Gibran

  Angel, Garden, Forever

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.

  Karolyn Grimes

  Movie, Christmas, Angel

  "Fire In Belltown, USA Destroys Last Bell Factory". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. May 31, 2012.

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• Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.

  Rumi

  Love, Heaven, Earth

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• Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

  Aberjhani

  Healing, Broken, Teens

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• Wings of Love long only to fly away from all directions.

  Rumi

  Long, Fly Away, Wings Of Love

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• Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.

  Sherry Thomas

  Wind, Giving, Kites

  Sherry Thomas (2012). “Ravishing the Heiress”, p.189, Penguin

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• Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

  Khalil Gibran

  Broken, Mercy, Lord

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Don't forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Flying High, Sky, Broken

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• If the lambs were flying, wolves would have also the wings to fly!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Flying, Lambs, Ifs

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• In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Sad, Sympathy, Stars

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

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• I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

  Dawna Markova

  Inspirational, Life, Fall

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

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