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“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”

Richard Bach

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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

Richard Bach

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“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.”

Richard Bach

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“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.”

Richard Bach

Source: The Bridge Across Forever (1984), Ch. 15
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“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!”

Richard Bach

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

Richard Bach

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“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.”

Richard Bach

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

Richard Bach

Source: One

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

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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

Richard Bach

Source: One

“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.”

Richard Bach

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

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

Richard Bach

Source: One

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

Richard Bach

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

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

Richard Bach

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

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

Richard Bach book The Bridge Across Forever

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)

“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.”

Richard Bach

Source: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit

“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.”

Richard Bach

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

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

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)