Book: The Seagull named Jonathan Livingston. Page 2

There's so much more to flying than just flapping around from place to place! A... a... mosquito does that!
To fly - it does not mean to flap the wings to move from place to place. It can even... even the mosquito.

Why is it that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free?
Why is the hardest thing ever to make birds believe that it is free?

You know nothing till you prove it!
You might be able to anything until you prove it - you can't do anything!

He felt better for his decision to be just another one of the Flock. There would be no ties now to the force that had driven him to learn, there would be no more challenge and no more failure. And it was pretty, just to stop thinking, and fly through the dark, toward the lights above the beach.
He felt relieved, having decided to be one of the Pack. Because by doing so he broke off his connection with the Force, forcing him to seek knowledge. So he was rid of the struggle, and defeat. It was so nice just to stop thinking and to fly silently in the dark to the lights twinkling in the distance over the beach.

We have the right to go where you want, and be what we created.
We're free to go where we wish and to be what we are.

Do not come discouraged if you break up. A farewell is needed in order to meet each other again. And the reunion, after a moment or many lives, doubtless, to those who are friends.

Jonathan Scagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.
Jonathan understood why so short life gull: eats her boredom, fear and anger, but he forgot about boredom, fear and anger, and lived a long happy life.

It always works, when you know what you're doing.
When you know what you're doing, always work.

The gull sees farthest who flies highest.
The higher a Seagull flies, the further it sees.

But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty.
But speed is power, speed is joy, speed is pure beauty.

He stood on the sand and fell to wondering if there was a gull back there who might be struggling to break out of his limits, to see the meaning of flight beyond a way of travel to get a breadcrumb from a rowboat.
He stood on the sand and thought: what if there on the Ground, is the Seagull, which is trying to escape from the shackles of his nature, tries to understand what can give the wings a fly to fishing boat and grab a crust of bread...

We went from one world into another that was almost exactly like it, forgetting right away where we had come from, not caring where we were headed, living for the moment.
We fly from one world to another, almost immediately forgetting where we came from, and not worrying about where we are going. We just live the current moment.

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.
Don't believe your eyes! They see only obstacles. To see means to understand, realize what you already know, and you'll learn to fly.

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...
Your whole body from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other is nothing like your idea expressed in a form that is accessible to your vision. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains your body...