“We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.”
“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.”
“If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we’ve destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don’t you think that we might see each other once or twice?”
*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, and teachers.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. *
and for you and azkar especially
*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.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. *
Its a popular one by him:
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours. if they don't they never were."
this one os good too:
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly."
Thanks everyone for giving such wonderful quotes...
I read Richard Bach about 10 years back. I have almost all of his Books. I guess I will clean the dust from them and start over.
I admit I haven't read Bach's Illusion but I sure would love to read it.
Along the lines, how about mentioning 'Alchemist' as well? I found his 'Fifth Mountain' immensely intriguing as well. Anyone agrees?
i first read Seagull when i was 12. i didn't understand it much. Read it next at age 20 or so... and suddenly there was illumination. This is one of those reads that "grows" with a person. the more life experience u accumulate the better u understand JLS. Those passages you've quoted are among my favourites too.