{"quotes":[{"text":"From darkness; take me unto Light.O God! Help me today, make my maiden flight.From sorrow; give me the strength to break. And help me to love and to care.From darkness take me unto Light.O God! Hear my prayers and let in the sunlight. (excerpts of my poem from my book 'From the Silence Within').","author":"Madhavi Sood","tags":["care","darkness","flight","god","life","light","living-life","living-life-to-the-fullest","love","new-life","poems","sorrow","sunlight"],"id":5154,"author_id":"Madhavi+Sood"},{"text":"Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["flight","mankind"],"id":11503,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"},{"text":"Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["alone","between","bird","bird","birds","cloud","clouds","die","eagle","eagle","eagles","flight","haze","high","life","loneliness","poem","poems","poetry","poetry","ray","remain","shroud","shrouds","sigh","sky","soar","sun","sunrays","verse","way"],"id":24344,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["escape","flee","flight","haruki-murakami","imagination","imagine","japan","japanese","murakami","reality","the-wind-up-bird-chronicle"],"id":26495,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"Recalling his first dreams of flight when he was a small child, Max acknowledged that his entire existence had been building up to this tipping point where he could finally choose to release his self-imposedlimitations.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["awareness","childhood","coming-of-age","consciousness","dream","dream-of-flying","empowerment","flight","flying","growing-up","growth","human-potential","limitation","personal-development","spirituality","transcendence","transformation"],"id":30834,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"Flying in his dreams was an exhilarating, breathtaking experience, sometimes literally, that tended to leave reality wanting, like riding a roller coaster compared to mowing the lawn.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["astral-projection","dreaming","dreams","flight","flying","levitation","lucid-dream","roller-coasters","sleep"],"id":32012,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"Riding a Dragon is amazing, exhilarating, and murder on the thighs.","author":"Bryan Fields","tags":["adventure","dragons","fantasy","flight","humor"],"id":42182,"author_id":"Bryan+Fields"},{"text":"The Guide says there is an art to flying', said Ford, 'or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.","author":"Douglas Adams","tags":["flight","flying","hg2g","humor"],"id":46534,"author_id":"Douglas+Adams"},{"text":"If I’m chasing the wrong thing, what I’m chasing will end up chasing me. And in the end, I’m less likely to be the one doing the catching.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["catch","catching","chase","chased","chasing","choice","choices","decisions","desire","desiring","destination","error","flee","fleeing","flight","goal","goals","incorrect","misguided","misled","priorities","priority","pursuing","pursuit","retreat","retreating","wrong"],"id":58814,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It was difficult to imagine that a full day hadn't yet passed since we boarded the airliner in New York. I paused. Medieval man believed that one was placed beyond the touch of time, and therefore aging, while attending Mass. What, I wondered, would he have made of those hours we left up in the sky? I would not change my watch until I gave the matter more thought.","author":"Tod Wodicka","tags":["aging","flight","mass","medieval-church","time"],"id":65590,"author_id":"Tod+Wodicka"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":103,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}