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Richard Bach Quotes - Page 10

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Learning is finding out what you already know.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Education, Learning Knowledge, Doers

Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.46, Delta

We all know those who draw their boundaries carefully and say, "I'm only human. Nobody's perfect. I accept my limitations." And we know others who take an opposite view and say, "I can do anything I choose to do. It is in my power to change the world." And those are the ones who most often change the world.

Views, Opposites, Perfect

Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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.

Motivational, Change, Moving On

There is something that is transcendental about when we are immersed in that which we most love.

Transcendental

Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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

Jobs, Work, Done

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.

Soulmate, Two, Together

"The Bridge Across Forever : A Lovestory". Book by Richard Bach, 1989.

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.

Character, Ideas, Following

Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writings a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.

Letting Go, Book, Writing

Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?

Writing, Doe, Touch Someone

Whatever it is that calls us, that's our path. And as we walk that path, we have a chance to shine forth who we are. It affects other people around us.

People, Shining, Who We Are

Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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.

Fear, Long, Boredom

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter - just kind of dissolves and there's this whirling tunnel of mist and there's a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I laugh sometimes in surprise at what they say.

Writing, Character, Tunnels

Source: www.inner-growth.info

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Rewards, Knows, Highest

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 the butterfly.

Believe, Ignorance, Butterfly

"Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

Flying, Gulls, Facts

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es."

Numbers, Giving, Decision

Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Numbers, Perfection, Limits

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.

Spiritual, Fun, Thinking

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.

Crazy, Remember Where You Came, Laughing

"Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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.

Real, Character, Practice

"Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

You're master of what you've lived, artisan at what you're living, amateur at what's next to live.

Next, Masters, Artisans

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.

Soulmate, Keys, Soul Mate

"The Bridge Across Forever: A Lovestory". Book by Richard Bach, 1989.

Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with fears, or if we trust the fears of others, we'll choose a path in which our city falls into the sea, or a path in which a third world war vaporizes us, or whatever other disaster is most thrilling or horrifying or fascinating for us.

War, Moving, Fall

Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable.

Airplane, Sky, Joy

Richard Bach (2012). “Nothing By Chance”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

Judging, Decision, Joy

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