Jonathan Livingston Seagull Quotes

“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 will see the
way to fly.”
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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“You have the freedom to be
yourself, your true self, here and
now, and nothing can stand in
your way".
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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“ T H E P R I C E O F B E I N G
M I S U N D E R S T O O D , H E
T H O U G H T . T H E Y C A L L Y O U
D E V I L O R T H E Y C A L L Y O U
G O D . ”
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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“Overcome space, and all we have left
is Here. Overcome time, and all we
have left is Now.”
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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“He was not bone and feather
but a perfect idea of freedom
and flight, limited by nothing at
all”.
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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“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.”
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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“ W e c a n l i f t o u r s e l v e s o u t o f
i g n o r a n c e , w e c a n f i n d
o u r s e l v e s a s c r e a t u r e s o f
e x c e l l e n c e a n d i n t e l l i g e n c e a n d
s k i l l . ”
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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“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.”
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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“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.”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L

“The gull sees farthest who flies
highest”.
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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"The only true law is that which leads to
freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.”
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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“To fly as fast as thought, to
anywhere that is, you must begin by
knowing that you have already
arrived.”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L

“One school is finished, and the
time has come for another to
begin.”
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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“Do you have any idea how many lives we
must have gone through before we even
got the first idea that there is more to
life than eating, or fighting, or power in
the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten
thousand!”
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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“ Y O U D O N ' T L O V E H A T R E D
A N D E V I L , O F C O U R S E . Y O U
H A V E T O P R A C T I C E A N D S E E
T H E R E A L G U L L , T H E G O O D
I N E V E R Y O N E O F T H E M , A N D
T O H E L P T H E M S E E I T I N
T H E M S E L V E S . T H A T ' S W H A T I
M E A N B Y L O V E . ”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L

“FOR MOST GULLS IT WAS NOT FLYING
THAT MATTERS, BUT EATING. FOR THIS
GULL, THOUGH, IT WAS NOT EATING THAT
MATTERED, BUT FLIGHT.”
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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“Heaven is not a place, and it is not a
time. Heaven is being perfect.”
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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“His one sorrow was not solitude, it was
that the other gulls refused to believe
the glory of flight that awaited them;
they refused to open their eyes and
see.”
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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“Look with your understanding, find out
what you already know, and you’ll see the
way to fly.”
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
2020-1-LT01-KA229-078054

"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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“ F O R I N S P I T E O F H I S L O N E L Y P A S T ,
J O N A T H A N S E A G U L L W A S B O R N T O B E
A N I N S T R U C T O R , A N D H I S O W N W A Y O F
D E M O N S T R A T I N G L O V E W A S T O G I V E
S O M E T H I N G O F T H E T R U T H T H A T H E H A D
S E E N T O A G U L L W H O A S K E D O N L Y A
C H A N C E T O S E E T R U T H F O R H I M S E L F . ”
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L

"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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“WHY IS IT,’ JONATHAN PUZZLED, ‘THAT
THE HARDEST THING IN THE WORLD IS TO
CONVINCE A BIRD THAT HE IS FREE, AND
THAT HE CAN PROVE IT FOR HIMSELF IF
HE’D JUST SPEND A LITTLE TIME
PRACTICING? WHY SHOULD THAT BE SO
HARD?”
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L

“He spoke of very simple things–It is right
for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very
nature of his being, that whatever stands
against that freedom must be set aside, be
it ritual or superstition out limitation in any
form.”
― R I C H A R D B A C H
J O N A T H A N L I V I N G S T O N S E A G U L L
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
2020-1-LT01-KA229-078054