Richard Bach Quotes

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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.

Richard Bach
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

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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.

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To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

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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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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.

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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

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In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

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It's not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

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Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

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Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being...

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If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.

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Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don't have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

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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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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.

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Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.

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Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

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It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

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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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The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."

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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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Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to Love.

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What I have just heard is pure... listen!... radiance, that you took from cloud-linings and sunrises and distilled into light that I can hear! Do you know how good, how lovely that is, what you can make the piano do?

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You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.

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My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

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The music broke from the piano like clear cold water from a prophet-touched rock, pouring and splashing around us while her fingers leaped and spread, curled and stiffened and melted and flickered in magic pass and streaked lightning above the keyboard. Never before had she played for me... because we were lovers now, was she free to play...?

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We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE!

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Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight — how to get from shore to food and back again.

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