Richard Bach Quotes: 27

• If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

• The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

• Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

• Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

• True love stories never have endings.

• The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

• Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

  Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

• You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

  Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

• I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

  The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

  Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

• 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.

• A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

• Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

• If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

  Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

• 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.

• You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

• Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

• A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

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• There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

• We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

  Jonathan Livingston Seagull

• 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.

  Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

• The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

• don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

• Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.

• Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

  Jonathan Livingston Seagull

• Whatever harm I would do to another, I shall do first to myself.As I respect and am kind to myself, so shall I respect and be kind to peers, to elders, to kits.I claim for others the freedom to live as they wish, to think and believe as they will. I claim that freedom for myself.I shall make each choice and live each day to my highest sense of right.

• Os livros são escritos devido a anos virados do avesso por ideias que não nos libertam até serem escritas e, até mesmo então, a escrita é o último recurso, um resgate desesperado que pagamos para que a vida nos seja devolvida.

  Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit