Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach)

Quotes from Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach):

• 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 will see the way to fly.
• You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.
• 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.
• Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.
• He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all
• Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.
• We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
• Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
• "The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.
• To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.