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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Roll with the punches.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Experience is the best teacher.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Be the best that you can be.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
You talkin to me ?
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Act or accept.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
No wire hangers, ever !
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
No one became poor by giving alms.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
He who has hope has everything.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.