Top 100 Richard Bach Quotes
#1. You're a master when things go well, you're a victim when they go out of control.
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#3. It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.
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#4. So this world, I think, and an indefinite number of other worlds of our creation, are also - we're here for fun; we're here for learning; we're here for remembering who we are, and who we are, are expressions of life so absolutely linked with the life that is, always was, always will be.
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#5. As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.
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#6. You're master of what you've lived,
artisan at what you're living,
amateur at what's next to live.
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#7. His one sorrow was not solitude, it was that other gulls refused to believe the glory of flight that awaited them; they refused to open their eyes and see.
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#8. How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.
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#9. One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.
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#10. The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.
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#11. You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.
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#12. You're always free to change your mind
and choose a different future, or a different past.
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#13. Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.
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#14. An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown
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#15. You are never given a wish without what it takes to make it true.
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#16. Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
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#17. You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.
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#18. Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.
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#19. Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.
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#20. Of course I'm a fake. We're all fakes on this whole world, pretending to be something we're not. We are not just bodies walking around, not just atoms, molecules. We are unkillable, undestroyable ideas of the IS, no matter how much we believe otherwise.
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#21. It's not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.
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#22. Can miles truly separate you from friends ... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
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#23. By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become.
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#24. The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.
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#25. The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
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#26. That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.
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#27. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.
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#28. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
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#29. I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.
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#30. 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.
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#31. You've sacrificed your entire life to be who you are today. Was it worth it?
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#32. Nothing happens by chance, my friend ... No such thing as luck.
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#33. When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.
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#34. I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.
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#35. He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them
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#36. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
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#37. Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her.
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#38. Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
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#39. One way to pick a future is to believe it's inevitable.
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#40. 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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#41. Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.
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#43. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
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#44. You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
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#45. Whatever enchants also guides and protects.
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#46. Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.
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#47. 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?
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#48. 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!
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#49. 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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#50. No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.
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#51. I didn't see how that applied to me, and reminded myself never to let a book replace my own thinking
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#53. If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel.
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#54. "What is my highest sense of right?" we can ask at any decision point in our lives and not worry about if this is going to lose us a lot of money or is this going to make us a lot of money or whatever.
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#56. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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#58. You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?
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#59. Oh, Fletch, you don't love that! You don't love hatred and evil,of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and help them to see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love. It's fun, when you get the knack of it.
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#60. Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?
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#61. There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of our lives, a family who wants to believe we're not pawns, we're not victims on this planet, that knows we have the power within us here and now to change the world we see around us!
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#62. 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.
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#63. Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?
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#65. If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.
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#66. Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!
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#67. Thanks to you, I always am so happy. Now I want to give you all the happiness on your birthday.
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#69. No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it.
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#70. There is
no such thing as a problem
without a gift for you
in its hands.
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#71. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.
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#72. The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty.
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#73. If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'
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#74. 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.
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#75. It doesn't matter whether they [beloved ones] are on this planet or not on this planet anymore. Once something is bound by love, as long as that love exists, there is nothing that can separate us. There is the appearance of separation, but the heart, it always treasures and values that.
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#77. You wait a lifetime to meet someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that someone, all along, has been you.
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#78. And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.
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#79. Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
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#80. If we believe that we're separated from someone, though they stand in the same room with us, we're separated. If we believe that we're together, if we believe that they are with us, if we listen through our inner senses, there's a chance we'll hear.
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#81. 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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#82. The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy
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#83. Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
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#84. Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.
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#85. I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.
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#86. I think there's an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. It's a lovely sight, watching it work.
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#89. I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.
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#90. Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.
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#91. Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
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#92. There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
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#93. Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.
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#94. But one creature said at last, I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.
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#95. A Name Is A Label, And As Soon As There Is A Label, The Ideas Disappear And Out Comes Label-Worship And Label-Bashing, And Instead Of Living By A Theme Of Ideas, People Begin Dying For Labels ... And The Last Thing The World Needs Is Another Religion.
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#96. 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.
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#97. A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.
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#98. We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.
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#99. Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?
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#100. 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.
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