Richard Bach
The simplest things are often the truest.
Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!
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.
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.
Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
Get this in mind early: We never grow up.
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.
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?Collection: Dream
You can't solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems solved.Collection: Inspirational
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.Collection: Inspirational
A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise.Collection: Wedding
If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'Collection: Believe
Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.Collection: Mistake
Every problem in your life carries a gift inside it.Collection: Problem
You wait a lifetime to meet someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that someone, all along, has been you.Collection: Waiting
Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.Collection: Two
Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life.Collection: Doe
As you believe, so it is for you.Collection: Believe
There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet.Collection: Forget Everything
Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.Collection: Dream
When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'Collection: Love
Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.Collection: Reality
You're never given a dream without the power to make it true.Collection: Dream
A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.Collection: Inspirational
Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.Collection: Treasure
We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.Collection: Our Thoughts
For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.Collection: Men
The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.Collection: Responsibility
I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it’s not finished yet.Collection: Way
We're different, we're the same. You thought you'd never find a word to say to a woman who didn't fly airplanes. I couldn't imagine myself spending time with a man who didn't love music. Could it be it's not as important to be alike as it is to be curious? Because we're different, we can have the fun of exchanging worlds, giving our loves and excitements to each other. You can learn music, I can learn flying. And that's only the beginning. I think it would go on for us as long as we live.Collection: Love
Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?Collection: Decision
Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's ManualCollection: Book
Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however.Collection: Dream
So much of what we said sounded crazy, yet none of it was false... as if two theoretical physicists stood on stage to say that when we travel near lightspeed, we get younger than nontravellers; that a mile of space next to the sun is differnt than a mile of space next to the earth because the sun-mile space is curved more than the the earth-mile. Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?Collection: Truth
I'm absolutely convinced that this is a world of appearances, not reality. There's one reality and that's Light and Love. When some say, we create our own reality, I always demur and say, "Please, would you mind adjusting that a little bit? We create our own appearances." We become master of appearances and as we change our thought, we will see the appearances around us change. That gives us this huge sense of dominion and power and control over our world.Collection: Reality
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.Collection: Misunderstood
It doesn't matter whether they [beloved ones] are on this planet or not on this planet anymore. Once something is bound by love, as long as that love exists, there is nothing that can separate us. There is the appearance of separation, but the heart, it always treasures and values that.Collection: Heart
Build an inner place to protect your truth.Collection: Protect
I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.Collection: Letting Go
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.Collection: Twenties
One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.Collection: War
Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.Collection: Compelling Reason
You teach best that which you need most to learn.Collection: Needs
There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was.Collection: Mistake
Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?Collection: Hypocrisy
Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don't have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.Collection: People