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Richard Bach Quotes - Page 9

All Quotes Adventure Airplane Appearance Arguing Belief Boredom Challenges Change Character Children Choices Consciousness Creativity Design Earth Education Encouragement Evil Excellence Family Fear Feelings Flying Friendship Fun Funny Future Giving Goodbye Gratitude Happiness Heart Heaven Home Hope Humanity Ignorance Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Joy Judging Language Learning Letting Go Life Lifetime Love Lying Magic Marriage Motivational Opportunity Overcoming Past Perfection Perspective Positive Purpose Quality Reality Respect Responsibility Risk Safety Simplicity Son Soul Success Swimming Teaching Time Truth Understanding Waiting Wall War Winning Wisdom Writing

Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar we get feathers in our mouth. It's worth it. What pleasure to phrase an

Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar we get feathers in our mouth. It's worth it. What pleasure to phrase an idea, even in child's words, slowly, and sail it across the gulf in another language to a different-speaking human being!

Children, Ideas, Different

Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.

Inspirational, Learning, Sometimes

It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes quiet for a time, and I think it's gone, but it's gathering energy for another burst. And I seem to be almost unwilling participants in this.

Stars, Writing, Thinking

Source: www.inner-growth.info

If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it’s condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don’t have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.

Expression, Perfect, Body

When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.

Dream, Character, Events

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

Trying, Natural Gifts, Natural

Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take 'em on.

Ems, Earth, Dodge

We know nothing until intuition agrees.

Intuition, Statistics, Agree

A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool." In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift.

Wall, Thinking, Self

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

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.

Letting Go, Rivers, Paddling

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

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.

Names, Ideas, People

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

Art, Hands, Sculpture

There's so much to learn! And just when we think, "I've got it. I really understand what's going on," we're shown a whole new stage set on which to play.

Spiritual, Thinking, Play

The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.

Dream, Compromise

Richard Bach (2007). “Messiah’s Handbook”, p.93, Jaico Publishing House

In spite of my study, I have learned. Every grand religion begins in light. Yet only hearts hold light. Pages cannot. I have paper in my hands. Give these words to the world and they will be loved and understood by those who already know their truth. The truth doesn't burn. The truth waits for anyone who wishes to find it... only these pages will burn. At one with the stars... with the pages and their love... one with everything that is, that ever was or will be. One.

Stars, Heart, Light

Reality is divinely indifferent.

Reality, Indifferent

Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.83, Delta

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Inspirational, Business, Service Culture

And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand "coincidences" and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance.

Dream, Lying, Believe

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

Love, Life, Happiness

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

Love, Respect, Loneliness

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.

Moving, Yoga, Clouds

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

Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.

Wall, Moving, Way

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.

Worry, Survival, Certainty

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

Writing, Different, World

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

There is something to astrology for those who believe in astrology, as there is something to medicine for those who believe in medicine. Every system works when we give our heart to it.

Believe, Heart, Medicine

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

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