Top 427 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Bach - Page 2

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.

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

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.

Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.

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

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

You can't solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems solved.

We design our lives through the power of choices.

One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'

Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.

All of us are called by something in this world that attracts us. And it doesn't matter what it is - you can be an engine mechanic or an aviator or you can be someone who loves their flower garden or the world of commerce or sailboats.

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.

When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.

The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.

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 into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

Don't fear change. It's always for the best.

Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

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.

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.

Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.

Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.

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

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

There is a kind of silver spiderweb that's spun around the world, and the strands of that web are certain loves and certain understandings. And if we follow those, and if we walk those strands, we're going to meet others at the intersections who have been walking the same way across this web. And when we meet, there's a kind of "I know who you are."

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.

The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life.

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

One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.

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.

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.

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

Part One: I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. Part Two: Everybody else is free to do whatever they feel like doing, for a living. Part Three: 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.

The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.

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.

I think the source of our sorrow and the source of our joy are intimately entwined. Our sorrow is that we have forgotten who we are, we have forgotten we are one with that source of all life - absolutely indestructible, perfect, joyful. The source of our joy is when we remember that.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.

We look at some people as if they were special, gifted, divine. Nobody is special and gifted and divine. No more than you are, no more than I am. The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it.

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

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.'

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

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.

Every problem in your life carries a gift inside it.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Learning is finding out what we 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. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

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

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.

Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Do you think, if you say the word "impossible" enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy.

Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.

Hate is love without enough data.

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.

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.

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.