Jonathan Livingston – Character Quotes

We're free to go where we wish and to be what we are.

You know nothing till you prove it!

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...

Oh, Fletch, you don't love that! You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.

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

You need to keep finding yourself, a little more each day, that real, unlimited Fletcher Seagull.

"They are saying in the Flock that if you are not the Son of the Great Gull Himself, <...> then you are a thousand years ahead of your time."
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

The only true law is that which leads to freedom. There is no other.

Irresponsibility? Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life?

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!

They saw the Breakthrough! But I want no honors. I have no wish to be leader. I want only to share what I've found, to show those horizons out ahead for us all.