Richard Bach quotes - page 8

Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad. (Richard Bach)
Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try. View quote
Richard Bach
Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter. View quote
Richard Bach
For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices It took a second to settle down I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool. View quote
Richard Bach
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. View quote
Richard Bach
We don't have rights until we claim them. View quote
Richard Bach
Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love. View quote
Richard Bach
All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment. View quote
Richard Bach
Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control. View quote
Richard Bach
You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds. View quote
Richard Bach
Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion. (Richard Bach)
What if somebody came along who could teach me how my world works and how to control it What if I could meet a super-advanced ... what if a Siddhartha or a Jesus came into our time, with power over the illusions of the world because he knew the reality behind them And what if I could meet him in person, if he were flying a biplane, for instance, and landed in the same meadow with me. View quote
Richard Bach
Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. Its only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings. View quote
Richard Bach
Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price. View quote
Richard Bach
In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. View quote
Richard Bach
If we change in different directions, then we don't have any future anyway, do we I think it's possible for two people to change together, to grow together and enrich instead of diminish each other. The sum of one and one, if they're the right ones, can be infinity But so often one person drags the other down one person wants to go up like a balloon and the other's a dead weight. I've always wondered what it would be like if both people, if a woman and a man both wanted to go up like balloons. View quote
Richard Bach
A name is a label, and as soon as there is a label, the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship and label-bashing, and instead of living by a theme of ideas, people begin dying for labels... and the last thing the world needs is another religion. View quote
Richard Bach
In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime. View quote
Richard Bach
The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty. View quote
Richard Bach
You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are. View quote
Richard Bach
What a story that would make How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp cliches, the same jagged dangers that have threatened us If the idea stands up, I thought, it would be worth uncovering the typewriter How Richard-years-ago would have wanted to know What happens when we set off searching for a soulmate who doesn't exist, and find her. (Richard Bach)
What was the question ... Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas Answer sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the answer. If you haven't already, I'd suggest you want to find your soulmate, as soon as you can. Next question' View quote
Richard Bach
That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some. View quote
Richard Bach
Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing. View quote
Richard Bach
Every word that judges value is circular. 'Good' is 'right' is 'proper' is 'just' is 'good'. But check the examples, and they're not circular at all Every one says 'makes me happy'. View quote
Richard Bach