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"Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long."
"Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck."
"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."
"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past."
"No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it."
"Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences."
"You teach best what you most need to learn."
"The conversation between Fletcher and Jonathan Livingston Seagull is centered on why some have achieved more than others . . . are they divine . . . ahead of their times . . . Fletcher says, Well, this kind of flying has always been here to be learned by anybody who wanted to discover it; that's got nothing to do with time. We're ahead of the fashion, maybe. Ahead of the way most gulls fly. Poor Fletch. Don't you believe what your eyes are telling you? All they show is limitations. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly."
"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"
"The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages."
"A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow."
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."
"Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy."
"I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy."
"Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life."
"Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing."
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."
"Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well."
"Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book."