Richard David Bach Quotes

Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.

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

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The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life find what we most want to do do it, no matter what and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime.

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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.

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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.

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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

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Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, iscertain for those who are friends.

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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

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There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

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That's what learning is, after all not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.

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... there is such a thing as perfection ... and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....

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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 ...

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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

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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.

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You teach best what you most need to learn.

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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

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If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all

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Argue for your limitations and they're yours.

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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.

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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

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Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else's list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

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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

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