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Richard Bach Quotes - Page 7

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

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

Spiritual, Lying, Thinking

That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.

Stories, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Love Story

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.

Past, Simple, Men

Richard Bach (1969). “Nothing by chance: a gypsy pilot's adventures in modern America”, Macmillan Pub Co

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

Wish, Credit, Blame

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

Gratitude, Problem, Messiah

1977 Illusions.

When we put up with any situation we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself.

Dumb, Lessons, Want

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.

People, Understanding, Levels

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

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.

Lying, Book, Writing

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

Feelings, Rooms, Feeling Bad

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

Spiritual, Real, Self

Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.51, Delta

We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure... not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth!

Princess, Adventure, Thinking

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

Success, Practice, Secret

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

Ideas, Perfect, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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

Love, Tests, Matter

True love stories never have endings.

Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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

Morning, Sea, Gold

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.

Writing, Dark, Doors

Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.3, Delta

nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.

Mean, Thinking, Choices

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.

Fear, Loss, Choices

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why we call it the present. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And If not now, when? A brick alone is nothing but a brick. It takes a collection of bricks to build a house. Instructor, what?? You mean you teach best what you most need to learn

Leadership, Sports, Mean

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.

Marriage, Hope, World

"The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.

Love, Fear, Lying

The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.

Fun, Writing, Thinking

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

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.

Life, Adventure, Swimming

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

Years, Rewards, Picks

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