Richard Bach citations

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“Le paradis, c'est simplement d'être soi-même parfait.”

“Pour pouvoir voler vous devez croire à l’invisible.”

“Rien n'est miraculeux. Si l'on apprend ce que sait le magicien, il n'y a plus de magie.”

“N’apprenons rien et le prochain monde sera identique, avec les mêmes poids morts à soulever, les mêmes interdits à combattre…”

“[…] tout nombre nous limite et la perfection n’a pas de bornes.”

“La seule loi digne de ce nom est celle qui montre le chemin de la liberté, […]. Il n’en est point d’autre.”

“Un écrivain professionnel est un amateur qui n'a pas renoncé.”

“An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit”

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.”

“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.”

“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.”