Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of...
Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again
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...
If I’ve learned one lesson in all my days, it’s this: Life starts new, every sunrise.
Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
Anybody who’s ever mattered, anybody who’s ever been happy, anybody who’s ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.
And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand coincidences and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Proble...
If you argue for your limitations they are yours
You find what you love and you learn everything about it. You bet your life on what you know and run from safety, off your mountain into the air, trusting the Principle of Flight to bring you soaring...
Why, Jon, why? his mother asked. Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feather...
Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?
What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?
What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.
Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with...
Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.
Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
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 superstit...
Everything above may be wrong!
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.