Richard Bach

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. 'Nothing' is the worst thing that can happen to us!

For most gulls it is not flying that matters but eating. For this gull though it was not eating that mattered but flight.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does I guess you do have a problem.

Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions asked again being you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.

Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]

To bring anything into your life imagine that it's already there.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

The idea that we are physical beings descended from primeval cells in nutrient soups that idea does violence to my intuition stomps all over it with football-shoes. The idea that we are descended from a jealous God who formed us out of dust to choo

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'll see the way to fly.

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

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.

One must learn to fall if one would fly.

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.

Look in a mirror and one thing's sure, what we see is not who we are.

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must nevertheless suffer for it.

The meaning I picked the one that changed my life: Overcome fear behold wonder.

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame who's to credit but us? Who can change it anytime we wish but us?

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.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

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.

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.

Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.

As you believe so it is for you.

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.

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

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

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

Learning is finding out what you already know Doing is demonstrating that you know it Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners doers and teachers.

Allow the world to live as it chooses and allow yourself to live as you choose.

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 reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know too when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes a farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends.

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

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.

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.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

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

Learning is finding out what you already know.