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.”

“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 best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."”

“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.”

“Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.”

“Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.”

“The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.”

“No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?”

“Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.”

“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?”