“He spoke of very simple things- that 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 or limitation in any form.
"Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?"
"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?"
"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”
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“Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“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.”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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