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1 " 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. "
― Richard Bach , The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
2 " Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully. "
― Richard Bach , Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
3 " 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. "
― Richard Bach
4 " You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. "
5 " What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. "
6 " 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. "
7 " Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. "
8 " A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow. "
― Richard Bach , One
9 " 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. "
10 " Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. "
11 " The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. "
12 " Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. "
13 " Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice. "
― Richard Bach , Jonathan Livingston Seagull
14 " If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it. "
15 " Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy. "
16 " Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death? "
17 " A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. "
18 " Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back. "
― Richard Bach , Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit
19 " 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. "
20 " There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. "
