Jonathan Seagull Quotes

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

  Richard Bach

  Stories, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Love Story

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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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• Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

  Richard Bach

  Practice, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Seagull

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

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• Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

  Richard Bach

  Misunderstood, Devil, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.

  Richard Bach

  Soulmate, Keys, Soul Mate

  "The Bridge Across Forever: A Lovestory". Book by Richard Bach, 1989.

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• Remember where you came from.

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  Remember Where You Came, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Wrists

  Donald Rumsfeld (2004). “The World According to Rummy”, Welcome Rain Publishers

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• Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

  Richard Bach

  Soulmate, Two, Together

  "The Bridge Across Forever : A Lovestory". Book by Richard Bach, 1989.

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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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• 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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• You're never given a dream without the power to make it true.

  Richard Bach

  Dream, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Given

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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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• Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

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• Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

  Richard Bach

  Fear, Long, Boredom

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?

  Richard Bach

  Friendship, Thinking, Space

  "Jonathan Livingston Seagull". Book by Richard Bach, 1970.

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

  Richard Bach

  Space, Overcoming, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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

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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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• 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, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Break

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

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• Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Life, Self Esteem

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

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• A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

  Richard Bach

  Flying, Gulls, Matter

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

  Richard Bach

  Flying, Gulls, Facts

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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