Richard Bach: Trending quotes (page 5)

“When we put up with any situation we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself.”

“How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.”

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

“To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.”

“Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.”

“One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.”

“The simplest things are often the truest.”

“Everything is exactly as it is for a reason.
The crumb on your table is
no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie,
it is there because you have chosen not to remove it.
No exceptions.”

“don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?”

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!”

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

“The original sin is to limit the Is.”

“There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.”

“You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.”

“How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.”

“Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.”

“If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.”

“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.”