When you have come to the edge of all the light you have, and step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of the two will happen to you. Either you’ll find something solid to stand on, or you’ll be taught how to fly!
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.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
Heaven is not a place, and it’s not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
It’s like, at the end, there’s this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?
We can start working with time, if you wish, till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to BEGIN to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love.
Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one.
Fletcher Lynd Seagull was still quite young, but already he knew that no bird had ever been so harshly treated by any Flock, or with so much injustice.
For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do...
Everything in this book may be wrong.
The image is a dream. The beauty is real.
This disaster is the chance you prayed for, your wish come true.
I’m fine. Indestructible.
You teach best what you most need to learn.
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
True love stories never have endings.