Richard Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Real love stories never have endings.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
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Be the change you want to see in the world.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Roll with the punches.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Ability is sexless.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Don't ever give up.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
There's no place like home.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
There is no education like adversity.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
The best things in life are not things.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.