Livingston Seagull Quotes:

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Life, Self Esteem, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

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

topic: Simple, Law, Voice, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

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

topic: Flying, Gulls, Facts, Jonathan Seagull, Livingston Seagull

Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.

- Richard Bach

topic: Two, Boredom, People, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Livingston Seagull

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

- Richard Bach

source: "Nothing by Chance: A Gypsy Pilot's Adventures in Modern America". Book by Richard Bach, 1969.

topic: Destiny, Luck, Chance, Jonathan Seagull, Livingston Seagull

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!

- Richard Bach

topic: Fighting, Ideas, Gone, Jonathan Seagull, Livingston Seagull

If you love something, set it free.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Love, Modern Family, Getting Back Together, If You Love Someone, Jonathan Seagull

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

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

topic: Marriage, Hope, World, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

The gull sees farthest who flies highest

- Richard Bach

topic: Achievement, Vision, Gulls, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

topic: Soulmate, Two, Together, Soulmate Love, Soulmates And Love

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Livingston Seagull

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise.

- Richard Bach

source: "The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story". Book by Richard Bach (p. 388), 1984.

topic: Wedding, Soulmate, Self, Soulmate Love, Soulmates And Love

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

- Richard Bach

topic: Life, Fear, Listening, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Matter, Imagine, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Dream, Given, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull, Livingston Seagull

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.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Bird, Flying, Learn To Fly, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

The only true law is that which leads to freedom,

- Richard Bach

topic: Law, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull, Livingston Seagull, Seagull

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Ignorance, Skills, Excellence, Learn To Fly, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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

topic: Flying, Matter, Gulls, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Space, Overcoming, Seagull, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

- Richard Bach

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

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Unique, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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.

- Richard Bach

source: Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.110, Delta

topic: Relationship, Positive, Spiritual, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Life And Choices

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Witty, Solved Problems, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Worst, Jonathan Seagull, Livingston Seagull

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Perseverance, Writing, Quitting, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Inspirational Self Esteem

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

topic: Motivational, Depression, Believe, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Someone Dying, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Life, Happy, World, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

- Richard Bach

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

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Future, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Love, Friendship, I Miss You, I Ll Miss You, I Missed You

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Encouraging, Wisdom, Encouragement, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

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

topic: Silly, Air, Rumor, Jonathan Seagull, Livingston Seagull

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

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

topic: Fear, Long, Boredom, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

- Richard Bach

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

topic: Inspirational, Success, Knowing, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

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

topic: Ignorance, Fishing, Skills, Learn To Fly, Livingston Seagull

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

topic: Real, Mean, Practice, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

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

topic: Friendship, Thinking, Space, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Ideas, Perfect, Flight, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

topic: Body, Break, Chains, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

topic: Real, Character, Practice, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

- Richard Bach

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

topic: School, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull, Livingston Seagull

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

topic: Weight, Next, Overcoming, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

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

topic: Wisdom, Failure, Learning, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

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

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

topic: Son, Light, Numbers, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Livingston Seagull

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Family, Spiritual, Respect, Happy Family, Jonathan Livingston Seagull