"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
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"If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all."
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"The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly."
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"When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'"
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"True love stories never have endings."
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"A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. "Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe..."
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"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah."
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"Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "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."
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"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."
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"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift."
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"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."
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"Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are."
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"Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god."
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"Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life."
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"You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel."
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"Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully."
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"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose."
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"Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today."
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"Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know."
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"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there."
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