57 quotes
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
There's No Such Place As Far Away (1978)
As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming, instead of being. Beyond time, we're all one.
The Bridge Across Forever (1984)
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
He wanted so much to ask, and he dared so little to know.
The Bridge Across Forever (1984)
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
The Bridge Across Forever (1984)
No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.
The Bridge Across Forever (1984)
There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
A Gift of Wings (1974)
I am no more messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
There's No Such Place As Far Away (1978)
Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit (1994)
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight — how to get from shore to food and back again.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
The gull sees farthest who flies highest.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)