Richard Bach: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.”

“In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.”

“We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.”

“Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.”

“One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.”

“There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.”

“The gull sees farthest who flies highest.”

“Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect.”

“You seek problems because you need their gifts.”

“Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull’s life is so short, and with these gone from his thoughts, he lived a long fine life indeed.”

“It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem… Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?”

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

“Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.”

“An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown”

“Get this in mind early: We never grow up.”