Jonathan Livingston Seagull

"The highest purpose of a life is to show others what is possible."

"Your body is not separate from your spirit; they are the same."

"One cannot teach what one does not understand oneself."

"Flight is really just a state of mind."

"To understand more is not always to know more."

"There is no such thing as a beginning or an end, only an infinite journey."

"You choose to believe that you are limited by your nature, but this is only a choice."

"The true measure of a life is in its purpose, not in its years."

"You will begin to touch heaven when you understand that the purpose of your life is joy."

"Everyone is born with the light of one's true way inside."

"It is impossible to truly live while refusing to die."

"That's what the real enemy is, I think. It's the simplest thing of all. When we stop trying, we start dying."

"It is better to strive for something and fail than to be content in your mediocrity."

"Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body."

"Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect."

"The more I try to show how easy it is, the more difficult it seems to become."

"True knowledge is knowing what you truly know and what you do not."

"The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, not to exist."

"The price of perfection is a price which I do not pay."

"I am not limited by this body's abilities."

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

"To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived."

"You are perfect as you are, right now."

"It is a curious thing that religious people never laugh at themselves."

"The gull sees farthest who flies highest."

"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding."