Jonathan Livingston Seagull Quotes

• 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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• 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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  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.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sports

  "Friendships: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases". Icon Group International, Incorporated, Page 14, November 26, 2008.

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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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• 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

  Wedding, Soulmate, Keys

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

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

  Richard Bach

  Dream, Given, Jonathan Seagull

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• 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

  Relationship, Positive, Spiritual

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

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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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• 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

  Inspirational, Deserving It, Matter

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• A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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

  Richard Bach

  Ideas, Perfect, Flight

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

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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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• 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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• Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Fear, Listening

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• 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

  Inspirational, Bird, Flying

  RICHARD BACH (1970). “JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL”

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

  Richard Bach

  Happiness, Being Happy, Inspiration

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.72, Delta

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

  Richard Bach

  Two, People, Boredom

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

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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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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• You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Life, Cute

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