Livingston Seagull Quotes - Page 2

• Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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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

  Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Worst, Jonathan Seagull

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

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  1977 Illusions.

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• Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

  Richard Bach

  Motivational, Depression, Believe

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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

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• I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Happy, World

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• You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Positive, Future

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.51, Delta

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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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• 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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• A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. "Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe...

  Richard Bach

  Silly, Air, Rumor

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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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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• To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Success, Knowing

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!

  Richard Bach

  Ignorance, Fishing, Skills

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

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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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• 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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• He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

  Richard Bach

  Ideas, Perfect, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.61, 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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• 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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• One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.

  Richard Bach

  School, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.37, 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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• That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

  Richard Bach

  Wisdom, Failure, Learning

  "The Bridge Across Forever". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.

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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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• 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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• The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Family, Spiritual

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.65, Delta

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