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Richard Bach Quotes - Page 5

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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Encouraging, Wisdom, Encouragement

"With a Conscience — ‘It’s Not You. It’s Me.’" by Claudia King, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2014.

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.

Beauty, Limits, Sin

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?

Hands, Long, Doe

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

Life, Proud Of Me, Persons

"One: A Novel". Book by Richard Bach, 1989.

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.

Kids, Air, Feelings

I'm utterly convinced of the One-ness of Love and us as its perfect reflection. I am absolutely convinced that the world around us is a world of appearances and anyone who wants to can practice it. Change your thought and your environment will change. It's not instantaneous and sometimes we have to work very hard to make what we want happen. Working hard and holding that thought, it will change.

Reflection, Practice, Perfect

Source: rbach.proboards.com

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

Misunderstood, Devil, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

Real, Fiction, This Life

"The Adventures of a Reluctant Student". Interview with Lee Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. May 16, 2014.

Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.

Life, Shows

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Love, Friendship, I Miss You

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Life, Friendship, Best Friend

Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.49, Delta

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Happiness, Spiritual, Sacrifice

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

We design our lives through the power of choices.

Graduation, Choices, Design

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.

Block, Tools, Sculpture

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?

World, Limits, Problem

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.

Fighting, Ideas, Perfection

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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.

Reality, Thinking, Use It Or Lose It

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

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.

Overcoming, World, Weight

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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

Believe, Way, Inevitable

Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.

Dream, Miracle, Lovely

Richard Bach (2007). “Messiah’s Handbook”, p.163, Jaico Publishing House

The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

Law, Gulls, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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

Believe, Self Respect, Answers

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Growing Up, Mind, Grows

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

Life, Matter, Easy

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