Last Flight (Primary source)
Earhart’s posthumous 1937 journal, compiled from dispatches during her final around-the-world attempt, becomes an inadvertent elegy for American optimism. Her matter-of-fact accounts of technical challenges and geographical wonders now read as her last transmission before vanishing into mystery and legend.
“The time to worry is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. To worry is to add another hazard. It retards reactions, makes one unfit. Hamlet would have been a bad aviator. He worried too much.”
— Amelia Earhart“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
— Amelia Earhart“Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.”
— Amelia Earhart“It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
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“I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.”
— Ernest Hemingway“The soul refuses limits, and always affirms an Optimism, never a Pessimism.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“It is never hopeless. But sometimes I cannot hope. I try always to hope but sometimes I cannot.”
— Ernest Hemingway“No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it’s not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.”
— Ernest Hemingway