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Richard Bach Quotes - Page 8

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

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

Destiny, Luck, Chance

"Nothing by Chance: A Gypsy Pilot's Adventures in Modern America". Book by Richard Bach, 1969.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

Choices, Remember, Life Decision

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

Powerful, Commitment, Opportunity

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

Inspirational, Growth, Problem

It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

World, Quitting

Richard Bach (2012). “Nothing By Chance”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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.

Integrity, Real, Winning

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.

Destiny, Up To You, Want

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.

Suicide, Suicidal, Starting Over

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

Ideas, Lovely, Dies

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

Adventure, Odds, Risk

The simplest things are often the truest.

Simple, Simplicity, Less Is More

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

Fear, Overcoming, Wonder

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Family, Growing Up, Criminal Mind

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.

Reality, World, Moments

The gull sees farthest who flies highest

Achievement, Vision, Gulls

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

Lynching, Choices, Design

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Fake People, Truth, Integrity

Richard Bach (2013). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.47, Random House

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

Lying, Reality, Space

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

Goodbye, Sometimes, Things To Do

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

Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.

Soulmate, Important

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

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

Mirrors, Looks, Who We Are

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

Fun, Creativity, Ideas

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

Being Strong, Believe, Winning

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

Resent

Everything you've said, everything you want to believe is already true. You may not find some of it for a while, and some of it might take longer than that, but that doesn't stop it from being true this minute!

Believe, May, Want

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