Toni Morrison Quotes

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

I don't like possessions.

If you give up the guilt, that's a huge load off your shoulders.

You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down.

You can't fly unless you let yourself fall

I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel lift under its wings. It's a magical feeling to climb toward the heavens, seeing objects and people on the ground grow smaller and more insignificant. You have left that world beneath you. You are inside the sky.

I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.

I'd love to fly. I think that'd be cool.

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.

I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

I would actually love to fly. I think that that would be probably the most exhilarating feeling, and as close as you can get to true freedom.

i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away

To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.

And falling's just another way to fly.

Make a little space, and get out of your own way.

If you own a car, you change that every few years and that's just what I'm doing with my appearance

let it go -- the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was sworn to go let them go -- the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers -- you must let them go they were born to go let all go -- the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things -- let all go dear so comes love

Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to trouble about, or to make trouble about.

I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking.

Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he's been taught—all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.