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  • If you love someone, set them free.

    Song: (If You Love Somebody) Set Them Free
  • Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

    Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.89, Simon and Schuster
  • We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

    Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
  • Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

    Time   Men   Remember You  
    Anton Chekhov (2007). “Chekhov Plays”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions
  • The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

    Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
  • Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

    Flying   Gulls   Facts  
    Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
  • I do work hard at trying to find the right expression for something, which might be like finding the right image - choosing not only the right words but down to the right number of lines. I remember being in Maine once at Colby College with Alex Katz. It houses hundreds of his works. There was a painting of just one seagull against a blue sky. I was admiring it and Alex said, "45 brush strokes exactly."

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. "Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe...

    Silly   Air   Rumor  
    Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.90, Simon and Schuster
  • I saw a seagull hanging out by a lake, but I said, "Don't worry, Dude. I won't say anything."

    Funny   Humor   Lakes  
  • 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 (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.90, Simon and Schuster
  • If you love someone set them free. If they come back, set them on fire.

  • 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.

    Son   Light   Numbers  
    Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
  • You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

    Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.51, Delta
  • Science is a seagull, it knows the sky; it is a squirrel, it knows the forest; it is a mole, it knows the underground; it is a dolphin, it knows the ocean! Science is a multi-talented creature!

  • The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing. I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.

    Running   Jobs   People  
  • Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!

    Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
  • You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".

    Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
  • He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

    Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
  • If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

    Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.72, Delta
  • I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.

    Play   Theater   Said  
    Interview with Susan Sarandon, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.
  • 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 (1970). “JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL”
  • When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.

    Golf   Blow   Seagull  
  • You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

    Sea   Sailing   Needs  
    Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.3, Rowman & Littlefield
  • You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'

    Son   Simple   Ducks  
  • Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth' on the fingers of coastal land, suggests that such notable features of our planet as dinosaurs, the prairies, the Himalayas, the seagull, the female of the species herself, were accidental by-products of the Almighty's preoccupation with the creation of the Old Course at St. Andrews.

    Moving   Golf   Land  
    Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.114, Arcade Publishing
  • Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here.

    Girl   Men   Lakes  
  • The legends lie cradled in the seagulls call, and the promise they made are ground beneath the sadist's fall.

    Lying   Fall   Animal  
  • Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

    "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.
  • A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away.

    Lunch   People   Noise  
    James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.63, Crown Business
  • A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'

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