Jonathan Seagull Quotes

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

Remember where you came from.

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

The gull sees farthest who flies highest

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!

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.

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

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

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.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

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

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

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

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

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.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

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?

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.

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.

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.

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.

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.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

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

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

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

Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

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

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

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!

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

If you love something, set it free.

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

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

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

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

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

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