Jonathan Livingston Seagull.. Richard Bach

A superb piece of inspirational reading for all, by Richard Bach .... " Jonathan Livingston Seagull" an extraordinary way to inspire oneself ! Putting together some of the key quotes from the book ....which will help anyone who has read the book to recollect the whole story thread by reading these quotes !

• " 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."
• He felt better for his decision to be JUST another one of the Flock
• "Stand to the centre of shame"
• "Violating the dignity and tradition of the Gull Familiy"
• "Life is the unknown and the unknownable, expect that we are put into this world to eat , to stay alive as long as we possibly can "
• " Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life"
• " To learn , to discover,to be free!"
• They refused to believe the glory of flight that awaited them; they refused to open their eyes and see
• He learned to fly, and he was not sorry for the price that he had paid.
• The boredome and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and will these gone from his thoughts, he lived a long fine life indeed.
• " Home i have none, Flock i have none. I am Outcast "
• You have learned . One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.
• Using its wings as means to the end
• Get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth.
• 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
• Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
• " You're very fast flier, aren't you ?"... " I....enjoy SPEED"
• " How do you do that? What does it feel like? How far can you go?"
• " You can go to any place and to anytime that you wish to go "
• " I have gone everywhere and everywhen i can think of "
• " Heaven isn't a place or a time, because place and time are so very meaningless. Heaven is ..."
• " Tell me what to do "
• " To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is," " you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived"
• " You didn't need faith to fly, you needed to understand flying. This is just the same. Now try again ..."
• " It always works, when you know what you're doing "
• "Keep working on Love"
• " You were an Outcast once . Why do you think that any of the gulls in your old times would listen to you now ?"
• The gulls sees farthest who flies highest. Those gulls where you came from are standing on the ground, squawking and fighting among themselves. They're thousand miles from heaven - and you say you want to show them heaven from where they stand ! " They can't see their own wingtips!"
• " You crazy bird" If anybody can show showone on the ground how to see thousand miles, it will be Jonathan Livingston Seagull"
• Firm but smooth , remember
• Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip , 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...."
• Law of Flock that an outcast never returns
• The limit of their ability
• They call you devil or they call you God. " Are we ahead of our time?"
• The hardest thing in the world is to convience a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it from himself if he'd just spend a little practicing? Why should that be so hard?"
• " You don't need need me any longer. You need to keep finding yourself , a little more each day that real, unlimited ."
• 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've got to understand that segull is an unlimted idea of freedom !

"You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. "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."