When we put up with any situation we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself.

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.

This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.

You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.

Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.

Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.