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21 " Whatever harm I would do to another, I shall do first to myself.As I respect and am kind to myself, so shall I respect and be kind to peers, to elders, to kits.I claim for others the freedom to live as they wish, to think and believe as they will. I claim that freedom for myself.I shall make each choice and live each day to my highest sense of right. "
― Richard Bach
22 " 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. "
― Richard Bach , Jonathan Livingston Seagull
23 " Get this in mind early: We never grow up. "
24 " Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? "
25 " Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. "
26 " Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. "
― Richard Bach , Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
27 " don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice? "
28 " My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home. "
― Richard Bach , Stranger to the Ground
29 " How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently. "
― Richard Bach , Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit
30 " You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there. "
31 " A moment later Jonathan’s body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. “Don’t let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I’m a seagull. I like to fly, maybe… "
32 " The more I want to get something done the less I call it work. "
33 " The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. "
34 " The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one famiy grow up under the same roof "
35 " I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you. "
36 " In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime. "
37 " Like attracts like. It'll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall. "
38 " Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. "
39 " 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. "
40 " You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. "