Richard Bach
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.Collection: Gratitude
Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.Collection: Destiny
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.Collection: Fear
If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel.Collection: Letting Go
Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.Collection: Feelings
We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.Collection: Lynching
I don't think creativity is mine to maintain. It automatically comes when we declare that "I am an expression of life, and life will express itself through me in the most playful and wonderful of ways, if I let it."Collection: Creativity
The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.Collection: Healing
The only true law is that which leads to freedom.Collection: Law
It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.Collection: Morning
I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.Collection: Marriage
What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?Collection: Adventure
There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.Collection: Years
It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes quiet for a time, and I think it's gone, but it's gathering energy for another burst. And I seem to be almost unwilling participants in this.Collection: Stars
Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar we get feathers in our mouth. It's worth it. What pleasure to phrase an idea, even in child's words, slowly, and sail it across the gulf in another language to a different-speaking human being!Collection: Children
If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.Collection: Want
As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Destiny
The gull sees farthest who flies highestCollection: Achievement
Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.Collection: Powerful
It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.Collection: World
Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.Collection: Life
Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.Collection: Space
A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool." In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift.Collection: Wall
Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.Collection: Mirrors
You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?Collection: Given
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.Collection: Reality
It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.Collection: Fun
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.Collection: Integrity
Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.Collection: Inspirational
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?Collection: Hands
Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.Collection: Lying
Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.Collection: Soulmate
When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Suicide
How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?Collection: Resent
She didn't mean to be sexy that moment, but even a winter nightgown couldn't hide that lovely outline. When will I outgrow my simple-minded fascination with the form she had happened to choose for her body? Never, I thoughtCollection: Love
Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!Collection: Country
We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty to ridicule us, it is their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different! And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card-games philosophical: 'Ah well, we can't toast 'em all...'Collection: Jobs
He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form. "Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?" "The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.Collection: Simple
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: Crazy
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.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Games
Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.Collection: Answers
The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.Collection: Art
He moves not through distance, but through the ranges of satisfaction that come from hauling himself up into the air with complete and utter control; from knowing himself and knowing his airplane so well that he can come somewhere close to touching, in his own special and solitary way, that thing that is called perfection.Collection: Distance
A drug for everything is madness. Legal or not, prescribed or not, over-counter under-counter bought for blood on street-corners-every pill separates us from knowing our own completion and from being taught by what's true.Collection: Blood
Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.Collection: Simple