"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were."
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"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."
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"Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now."
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"Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly."
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"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly."
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"A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons."
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"He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all"
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"To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived."
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
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"Don't be dismayed by 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."
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"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly."
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"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life."
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"Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life."
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"The gull sees farthest who flies highest"
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"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself."
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"A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise."
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"For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight."
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"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."
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"You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way"."
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"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."
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