Top 427 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Bach - Page 3

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.

Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.

Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?

We know nothing until intuition agrees.

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

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?

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.

The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.

The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

As you believe, so it is for you.

Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?

Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take 'em on.

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.

If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.

We don't have rights until we claim them.

Two words: Love leads. Listen to that ring of love within. If we follow that leading of love we'll be guaranteed an adventurous, positive, joyful life.

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.

We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?

Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else.

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

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.

Before you'll change, something important must be at risk.

Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

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.

He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

There's so much to learn! And just when we think, "I've got it. I really understand what's going on," we're shown a whole new stage set on which to play.

For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices? It took a second to settle down: I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool.

As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".

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.

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.

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.

The way to tell if your job is done: if you're alive, you've got a job.

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... 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.

Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.

Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship.

The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.

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.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.

I don't think creativity is mine to maintain. It automatically comes when we declare that "I am an expression of life, and life will express itself through me in the most playful and wonderful of ways, if I let it."

Thought plus belief equals manifestation.

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.

Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.

There is something to astrology for those who believe in astrology, as there is something to medicine for those who believe in medicine. Every system works when we give our heart to it.