Richard Bach: Trending quotes (page 3)

“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.”

“That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.”

“When you have come to the edge of all the light you have
And step into the darkness of the unknown
Believe that one of the two will happen to you
Either you'll find something solid to stand on
Or you'll be taught how to fly!”

“Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.”

“No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.”

“You're always free to change your mind
and choose a different future, or a different past.”

“Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.”

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

“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”

“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.”

“Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.”

“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”

“Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.”

“The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. It is intimacy.”

“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.”

“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.”

“We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.”

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

“The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.”