Jonathan Livingston Seagull Quotes

To begin with, you've got to understand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself. ~ Richard Bach

We can reach untainted experiential freedom, by living in the moment as it is - without contemplation. Here we find the possibility of freedom - of just being - living as our authentic self. We are our true nature. We are one and whole. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

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

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

That's why love stories don't have endings! They don't have endings because love doesn't end. ~ Richard Bach

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

If you love someone, set them free. If they don't come back, text them when you're drunk. ~ Brooke Bida

Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise ... Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer!
Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories ~ Richard Bach

I may never fly - in the bird sort of way. But I do have wings. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

I played Jonathan Livingston Seagull in a musical version of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' in Austin, TX. It was pretty special. ~ Lauren Worsham

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

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. ~ Lauren Bacall

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull. ~ Jonathan Lethem

Why did you save Park's life, was that so good?'
'I don't know if it was such a good thing to do,' said Jonathan. 'But there are things you have to do, otherwise you're not a human being, just a piece of dirt. I've said this to you before.'
'But what if he'd realized who you were?' I said. 'And they had caught you!'
'Well, then they would've caught Lionheart and not a piece of dirt,' said Jonathan. ~ Astrid Lindgren

Guilt's a whore. It goes with anybody, but it's not good in bed. You're not dying, but this thing you've got with the girl is no different than my situation. We could both use up whole days feeling guilty 'bout what we didn't do in life, but why spend a day in bed with someone who doesn't give you any pleasure? ~ Jonathan Carroll

The odd truth about Alfred was that love, for him, was a matter not of approaching but of keeping away. ~ Jonathan Franzen

I'll tell you the same thing I told your father. We make mistakes. They don't make us. If they did, we'd all be royally fucked, especially a coupe of assholes like us."
I grin at his last remark, and finally find some words to say, even though I'm not sure I possess the conciliatory feelings to match my town. "You could learn a lot from an asshole."
Dugan smiles at that, and it's the first time I've ever seen him do it. "I guess so. ~ Jonathan Tropper

It was entirely possible that one song could destroy your life. Yes, musical doom could fall on a lone human form and crush it like a bug. The song, that song, was sent from somewhere else to find you, to pick the scab of your whole existence. The song was your personal shitty fate, manifest as a throb of pop floating out of radios everywhere. ~ Jonathan Lethem

The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family. ~ Jonathan Reckford

Nothing truly lasts forever, not even immortals. - Jonathan. ~ Helen Boswell

Fuck your science, Doctor...
I've got a machine gun. ~ Jonathan Hickman

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen. ~ Jonathan Demme

And was the next word I lost, probably because it was so close to her name, what a simple word to say, what a profound word to lose. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing. ~ Jonathan Zittrain

I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters. ~ Jonathan Demme

For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to. ~ Jonathan Lethem

The best ones, are not the perfect ones. ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging - to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it. ~ Jessica Livingston

The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

By 1950, he had come to view the pedestrian as a threshold or indicator species capable of foretelling things to come - if the rights of the pedestrian were threatened, it would be an early indicator that broader freedoms of thought and action were also at risk. ~ Jonathan Eller

SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of domes[tic]ated birds; Sadness of fini[shi]ng a book; Sadness of remembering; Sadness of forgetting; Anxiety sadness . . . INTERPERSONAL SADNESSES: Sadness of being sad in front of one's parent; Sa[dn]ess of false love; Sadness of love [sic]; Friendship sadness; Sadness of a bad conversation; Sadness of the could-have-been; Secret sadness . . . ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Did you feel that?" he asked, concern crossing his face. "Yeah, I felt it. You too?" I answered, flirting back. "No, I mean, yes, obviously I felt that, but didn't you feel that hit your head?" he asked, beginning to grin broadly. "What are you talking about?" I asked, raising my hand up to my hair. "Oh, Jesus, Grace, a seagull just shit on your head," he stated, beginning to shake. "What? ~ Alice Clayton

Getting wasted is never a waste of time. ~ Jonathan Heatt

In every relationship one must sacrifice to show thy love. Are you willing to make sacrifices for someone you love? ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government, what they're doing. ~ Jonathan Alter

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter. ~ Jonathan Pryce

I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Our parents can continue to screw us up even after they die, and in this way, they're never really gone. ~ Jonathan Tropper

She holds on to a rung of the ladder while I tread water a foot or so in front of her. After a few moments, my eyes have adjusted to that I can look into hers. I flash back to Horry and Wendy, looking at each other in this exact spot a few hours ago, this haunted pool that seems to pull dead and buried love to its surface. ~ Jonathan Tropper

But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole. ~ Jonathan Swift

This is the age," she explained to me once as we walked home from school, "when we're the purest forms of ourselves we'll ever be. We haven't been complicated by everything yet. I want to keep a clear record of who I am, so that down the road I'll be able to see who I was. Maybe I can avoid losing myself completely."

She sighed, biting her lip pensively. "Things happen," she said. "Small things and large things, and they just keep changing you, little by little, until there's no trace of who you used to be. If I get lost, this journal will be like a record of who I was, a trail of bread crumbs to find my way back. ~ Jonathan Tropper

But Holly the gun-toting, wild-haired madwoman of the night before was in there somewhere, I knew. It made me look upon her with fond affection. ~ Jonathan Stroud

If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red pill, learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix. ~ Jonathan Haidt

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

An accident of brain development stacked the deck against children: the mother had three or four years to fuck with your head before your hippocampus began recording lasting memories. You'd been talking to your mom since you were one year old and listening to her for even longer, but you couldn't remember a single word of what you or she had said before your hippocampus kicked into gear. Your ~ Jonathan Franzen

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian. ~ Jonathan Edwards

If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege. ~ Jonathan Carroll

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation. ~ Jonathan Winters