Richard Bach · 144 pages
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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.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. ”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“We teach best what we most need to learn.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“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.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Learning is finding out what you 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, teachers.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got
responsibilities.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“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.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“You seek problems because you need their gifts.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“if you argue for your limitations they are yours”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.”
“No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Amazing. You were so attached to it, and it still disappeared for you."
“Attached! I was whocking that cloud with everything I had! Fireballs, laser beams, vacuum cleaner a block high...”
“Negative attachments, Richard. If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That’s all there is to it.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Like attracts like. Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are,and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.”
― Richard Bach, quote from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach
Born place: in Oak Park, IL, The United States
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“What is remarkable is that there are no traces of evolution from simple to sophisticated, and the same is true of mathematics, medicine, astronomy and architecture and of Egypt's amazingly rich and convoluted religio-mythological system (even the central content of such refined works as the Book of the Dead existed right at the start of the dynastic period). 7 The majority of Egyptologists will not consider the implications of Egypt's early sophistication. These implications are startling, according to a number of more daring thinkers. John Anthony West, an expert on the early dynastic period, asks: How does a complex civilization spring full-blown into being? Look at a 1905 automobile and compare it to a modern one. There is no mistaking the process of `development'. But in Egypt there are no parallels. Everything is right there at the start. The answer to the mystery is of course obvious but, because it is repellent to the prevailing cast of modern thinking, it is seldom considered. Egyptian civilization was not a `development', it was a legacy.”
― Graham Hancock, quote from Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
“It seemed as if humans had lost the ability to make their own fun. The more they were gifted with inventions, the less they needed one another. They didn't sing or play the fiddle at the hearth; they turned on the stereo. They didn't tell stories on the porch; they watched television.”
― Laura Whitcomb, quote from A Certain Slant of Light
“I guess you've grown up anyway, Janie. Even with all the bricks I put on your head to keep you little.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, quote from The Face on the Milk Carton
“My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.”
― Djuna Barnes, quote from Nightwood
“... Then he did a strange thing. He lifted my hand to his lips and kissed my palm."
"I died. That was like the sweetest thing.”
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