Jonathan Livingston Seagull Quotes - Page 2

• You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Unique

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  1977 Illusions.

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• One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.

  Richard Bach

  School, Jonathan Seagull, Finished

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Son, Light, Numbers

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Real, Character, Practice

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

  Richard Bach

  Morning, Sea, Gold

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The gull sees farthest who flies highest

  Richard Bach

  Achievement, Vision, Gulls

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.

  Richard Bach

  Space, Overcoming, Jonathan Seagull

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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

  Richard Bach

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.49, Delta

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• Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

  Richard Bach

  Worst, Jonathan Seagull, Happens

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

  Richard Bach

  Encouraging, Wisdom, Encouragement

  "With a Conscience — ‘It’s Not You. It’s Me.’" by Claudia King, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2014.

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• Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.

  Richard Bach

  Mom, Mother, Son

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• You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.

  Richard Bach

  Real, Mean, Practice

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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

  Richard Bach

  Love, Friendship, I Miss You

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• Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

  Richard Bach

  Anniversary, Soulmate, Soul Mate

  "The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story". Book by Richard Bach, November 21, 2006.

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• The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

  Richard Bach

  Law, Gulls, Jonathan Seagull

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Marriage, Hope, World

  "The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.

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• 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

  Overcoming, World, Weight

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

  Richard Bach

  Ignorance, Skills, Flying

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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

  Richard Bach

  Perseverance, Writing, Editing

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.9, Dell

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• Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.

  Richard Bach

  Body, Break, Form

  Richard Bach (2013). “A sirály”, p.76, Édesvíz Kiadó

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• If you love someone set them free. If they come back, set them on fire.

  George Carlin

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Fire

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• That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.

  Richard Bach

  Stories, Love Story, Ends

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• Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

  Richard Bach

  Determination, Acceptance, Persistence

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.44, Delta

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• He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form. "Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?" "The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.

  Richard Bach

  Simple, Law, Voice

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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