RICHARD BACHQuotes“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”
― Richard Bach “Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” ― Richard Bach “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.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.” ― Richard Bach, 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.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. ” ― Richard Bach “Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. ” ― Richard Bach, 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.” ― Richard Bach “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.” ― Richard Bach “Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions “If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.” ― Richard Bach “Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.” ― Richard Bach “Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions “That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “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.” ― Richard Bach “That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “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!” ― Richard Bach “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.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.” ― Richard Bach, One “Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you´re alive it isn't.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “We teach best what we most need to learn.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.” ― Richard Bach “Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.” ― Richard Bach “A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.” ― Richard Bach, One “Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.” ― Richard Bach, One “To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “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.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?” ― Richard Bach “Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.” ― Richard Bach “There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.” ― Richard Bach “Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “True love stories never have endings.” ― Richard Bach “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.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy choice.” ― Richard Bach “The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy” ― Richard Bach “Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “I had grown up in a house with a fence around it, and in this fence was a white smooth wooden gate, two holes bored round and low together so the dog could see through. One night, the moon high, late for me home from the school dance, I remember that I stopped, hand on the gate, and spoke so quietly to myself and to the woman that I would love that not even the dog could have heard. I don’t know where you are, but you’re living right now, somewhere on this earth. And one day you and I are going to touch this gate where I’m touching it now. Your hand will touch this very wood, here! Then we’ll walk through and we’ll be full of a future and of a past and we’ll be to each other like no one else has ever been. We can’t meet now, I don’t know why. But some day our questions will be answers and we’ll be caught in something so bright...and every step I take is one step closer on a bridge we must cross to meet.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.” ― Richard Bach, One “He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.” ― Richard Bach “One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.” ― Richard Bach, One “If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.” ― Richard Bach “There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.” ― Richard Bach, One “Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.” ― Richard Bach “It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?” ― Richard Bach, One “The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.” Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect. -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.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is reality. That is the truth. What we make of it is up to us, as the painting of the sunrise is up to the artist. In our world humanity has strayed from that love. It lives hatred and power struggles and manipulations of the earth itself for its own narrow reasons. Continue and no one will see the sunrise. The sunrise will always exist, of course, but people on earth will know nothing of it and finally even stories of its beauty will fade from our knowing.” ― Richard Bach, One “Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “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.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “Get this in mind early: We never grow up.” ― Richard Bach “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” ― Richard Bach, One “Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.” ― Richard Bach, One “Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “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.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “The gull sees farthest who flies highest” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.” ― Richard Bach, One “You seek problems because you need their gifts.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “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.” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form. "Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?" "The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?” ― Richard Bach “Amazing. You were so attached to it, and it still disappeared for you." “Attached! I was whocking that cloud with everything I had! Fireballs, laser beams, vacuum cleaner a block high...” “Negative attachments, Richard. 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.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “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.” ― Richard Bach “The simplest things are often the truest.” ― Richard Bach “It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.” ― Richard Bach, Nothing by Chance “Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.” ― Richard Bach, One “Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.” ― Richard Bach, Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul “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.” ― Richard Bach “Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. It’s only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.” “No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions “How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “From time to time it's fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to ourselves, 'I am the sorcerer, and when I open my eyes I shall see a world that I have created, and for which I and only I am completely responsible.' Slowly then, eyelids open like curtains lifting stage-center. And sure enough, there's our world, just the way we've built it.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.” ― Richard Bach “if you argue for your limitations they are yours” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “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.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.” ― Richard Bach, Nothing by Chance “There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.” ― Richard Bach, One “Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “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.” ― Richard Bach, One “There is no such thing as a problem with out a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “Whatever enchants also guides and protects.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “Has it ever happened, you’ve seen a striking film, beautifully written and acted and photographed, that you walk out of the theater glad to be a human being and you say to yourself I hope they make a lot of money from that? I hope the actors, I hope the director earns a million dollars for what they’ve done, what they’ve given me tonight? And you go back and see the movie again and you’re happy to be a tiny part of the system that is rewarding those people with every ticket...the actors I see on the screen, they’ll get twenty cents of this very dollar I’m paying now; they’ll be able to buy an ice cream cone any flavor they want from their share of my ticket alone. Glorious moments in art in books and films and dance, they’re delicious because we see ourselves in glory’s mirror.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.” ― Richard Bach, One “Passionately obsessed by anything we love--an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love....” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.” ― Richard Bach “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?” ― Richard Bach “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!” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.” ― Richard Bach “Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.” ― Richard Bach “It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....” ― Richard Bach “Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “You teach best what you most need to learn” ― Richard Bach “Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.” ― Richard Bach, One “Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?” ― Richard Bach, One “You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “You are never given a wish without what it takes to make it true.” ― Richard Bach “What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “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 to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “Real love stories never have endings.” ― Richard Bach “Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “A moment later Jonathan’s body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. “Don’t let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I’m a seagull. I like to fly, maybe…” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “All the people, all the events in your life are put there for a reason. 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.” ― Richard Bach “Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.” ― Richard Bach “We think, sometimes, there's not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests, enchanting deer and butterflies with her smile. What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure ...not only are they here-and-now, they're all that ever lived on earth! Our century, they've changed clothes, of course. Dragons wear government-costumes, today, and failure-suits and disaster-outfits. Society's demons screech, whirl down on us should we lift our eyes from the ground, dare we turn right at corners we've been told to turn left. So crafty have appearances become that princesses and knights can be hidden from each other, can be hidden from themselves.” ― Richard Bach “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. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “Sully,for shame!" Jonathan said in reproach, " and don't be foolish! What are we trying to practice everyday? If our friendship depends on things like space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “You gave your life to become the person you are right now Was it worth it?” ― Richard Bach, Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul “The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.” ― Richard Bach, One “And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand "coincidences" and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance.” ― Richard Bach, Nothing by Chance “Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite life, choosing its playground; protect that the world you know exists with your consent and for your own good reasons; protect that your purpose and mission is to shine love in your own playful way, in the moments you decide will be most dramatic.” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.” ― Richard Bach, Nothing by Chance “Le paradis, c'est simplement d'être soi-même parfait.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “Like attracts like. It'll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.” ― Richard Bach “I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it’s not finished yet.” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “If we don't accept any common beliefs, we can't exist in spacetime. But when we don't believe in age, at least we don't have to die because our numbers change. [...] When you don't believe in birthdays, the idea of aging turns a little foreign to you. You don't fall into trauma over your sixteenth birthday or your thirtieth or the big Five-Oh or the deadly Century. You measure your life by what you learn, not by counting how many calendars you've seen. If you're going to have trauma, better it be the shock of discovering the fundamental principle of the universe that some date predictable as next July.” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.” ― Richard Bach “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. The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in awhile and watch your answers change.” ― Richard Bach, Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul “If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.” ― Richard Bach “Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.” ― Richard Bach “How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.” ― Richard Bach “My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.” ― Richard Bach, Stranger to the Ground “Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.” ― Richard Bach “You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.” ― Richard Bach, One “If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it’s condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don’t have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare.” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however...” ― Richard Bach “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.” ― Richard Bach, A Gift Of Wings “Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so.” ― Richard Bach, Nothing by Chance “How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?” ― Richard Bach, One “Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world.” ― Richard Bach “You find what you love and you learn everything about it. You bet your life on what you know and run from safety, off your mountain into the air, trusting the Principle of Flight to bring you soaring up on lift you cannot see with your eyes.” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I’m master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell’s own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “Here's the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't” ― Richard Bach “An author is a writer who didn't give up.” ― Richard Bach “Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teach is reminding others that they known just as well as you. Your only obligation in any life time is to be true to yourself. The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while, and watch your answers change.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiahz “Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.” ― Richard Bach, One “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” ― Richard Bach “What about everybody else Pye? How many lives can there be in one universe?'[...] 'How many lives Richard?'[...]'One.'.” ― Richard Bach, One “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.” ― Richard Bach “I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “Like attracts like. Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are,and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” ― Richard Bach “Can miles truly separate us from friends? If you want to be with Rae, aren't you already there?” ― Richard Bach, There's No Such Place as Far Away “To begin with, you've got to understand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that. Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers. 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 false messiah. Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change. Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. 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. There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't. A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion....this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons. You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. 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. The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages. 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. In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities." The truth you speak has no past and no future. It is, and that's all it needs to be. Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. 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. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution it not generally understood by less advanced lifeforms, and they'll call you crazy. Everything above may be wrong!” ― Richard Bach “Right at the beginning, before the pianist could get her wheels up and fly into that storm, she was hit with a con brio, which I figured meant she had to play either with brightness, with coldness, or with cheese.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.” ― Richard Bach “Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that's all right. You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds, remember.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “The only law is one which leads to freedom” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “What matters most: "What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh." Wind, Sand and Stars.” ― Richard Bach “ 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.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “In half a century of challenge and learning and trial-and-error, each of us had struggled from hard times to a present lovely beyond our dreams.” ― Richard Bach, One “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.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “We are focus-points of consciousness, [...] enormously creative. When we enter the self-constructed hologrammetric arena we call spacetime, we begin at once to generate creativity particles, imajons, in violent continuous pyrotechnic deluge. Imajons have no charge of their own but are strongly polarized through our attitudes and by the force of our choice and desire into clouds of conceptons, a family of very-high-energy particles which may be positive, negative or neutral. [...] Some common positive conceptions are exhilarons, excytons, rhapsodons, jovions. Common negative conceptions include gloomons, tormentons, tribulons, agonons, miserons. "Indefinite numbers of conceptions are created in nonstop eruption, a thundering cascade of creativity pouring from every center of personal consciousness. They mushroom into conception clouds, which can be neutral or strongly charged - buoyant, weightless or leaden, depending on the nature of their dominant particles. "Every nanosecond an indefinite number of conception clouds build to critical mass, then transform in quantum bursts to high-energy probability waves radiating at tachyon speeds through an eternal reservoir of supersaturated alternate events. Depending on their charge and nature, the probability waves crystallize certain of these potential events to match the mental polarity of their creating consciousness into holographic appearance. [...] "The materialized events become that mind's experience, freighted with all the aspects of physical structure necessary to make them real and learningful to the creating consciousness. This autonomic process is the fountain from which springs every object and event in the theater of spacetime. "The persuasion of the imajon hypothesis lies in its capacity for personal verification. The hypothesis predicts that as we focus our conscious intention on the positive and life-affirming, as we fasten our thought on these values, we polarize masses of positive conceptions, realize beneficial probability-waves, bring useful alternate events to us that otherwise would not have appeared to exist. "The reverse is true in the production of negative events, as is the mediocre in-between. 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 [...]” ― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit “Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “Learning is finding out what you already know” ― Richard Bach “If you bind too strongly to things and people, when they disappear, it will not go maybe even a part of ourselves?” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is...? ...ourselves.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “the Original Sin is to limit the ''is'':Don't” ― Richard Bach “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....” ― Richard Bach “Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise . . . Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer!" ---Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories” “He's changing. Every day more remote, protected, distant. He builds fests now for the soulmate he hasn't found, bricking wall and maze and mountain fortress, dares her to find him at the hidden center of them all Here's an A in self-protection from the one in the world he might love and who might someday love him.” ― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story “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.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “There was part of me listening that didn't think what I said was fiction. I was making up a true story.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “Jonahtan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short,and with these gone from his thought,he lived a long life indeed.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “If I’ve learned one lesson in all my days, it’s this: Life starts new, every sunrise.” ― Richard Bach, Travels with Puff: A Gentle Game of Life and Death “If you love somebody, set them free. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were” ― Richard Bach “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...” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull “What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?” ― Richard Bach, Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student “Everything above may be wrong!” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “Holding ideas in our mind, that brings events to us, tests, rewards.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student “I wanted to say, for the love of God, if you want freedom, can't you see it's not anywhere outside of you? Say you have it, and you have it! Act as if it is your's, and it is! Richard, what is so damned hard about that? But they didn't hear, most of them. Miracles - like going to auto races to see the crashes, they came to see miracles. First it's frustrating and then after a while it just gets dull. I have no idea how the other messiahs could stand it” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “I’m fine. Indestructible.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student “I didn’t crash anything! They said I hit the wires, Don! I didn’t see them!” “That explains it. You’re a master when things go well, you’re a victim when they go out of control.” He was laughing at me.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student “Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.” ― Richard Bach “Oh, the different consciousness between the grieving and the dying! One sees midnight, the other joyful sunrise. One sees death, the other Life as never before.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student “This disaster is the chance you prayed for, your wish come true.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student “The image is a dream. The beauty is real.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “a thousand times: “You’re a perfect expression of perfect Love, here and now. You will have a perfect” ― Richard Bach, Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student “ In every disaster, in every blessing, ask, "Why me?" There's a reason, of course, there's an answer.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student “How many of us count fictional characters, or those we've never met, among our closest friends? My hand's up.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student “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?” ― Richard Bach, One “You’re a perfect expression of perfect Love, perfect Life, here and now.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student “Soon as you realize you’re immortal,” he said, “declare the power of Love even when it seems invisible, you’ll go far beyond the illusions of space and time. In all history, the one power you never lose is your power of letting go of space and time, the joy of dying that is no wicked thing, it comes in love, to everyone.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student “always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah “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.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition “A professional writer is an amateur who never gave up.” ― Richard Bach “Everything in this book may be wrong.” ― Richard Bach, Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul “It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned — when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse.” ― Richard Bach, A Gift Of Wings |
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