Jonathan Livingston Seagull Quotes

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

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

If you love someone, set them free.

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

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.

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

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.

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.

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

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.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

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.

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

The gull sees farthest who flies highest

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

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.