“Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is reality. That is the truth. What we make of it is up to us, as the painting of the sunrise is up to the artist. In our world humanity has strayed from that love. It lives hatred and power struggles and manipulations of the earth itself for its own narrow reasons. Continue and no one will see the sunrise. The sunrise will always exist, of course, but people on earth will know nothing of it and finally even stories of its beauty will fade from our knowing.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“What about everybody else Pye? How many lives can there be in one universe?'[...] 'How many lives Richard?'[...]'One.'.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“In half a century of challenge and learning and trial-and-error, each of us had struggled from hard times to a present lovely beyond our dreams.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“Nemalonumai nėra pats blogiausias dalykas, kuris mums gali atsitikti. Baisiausia yra, kai mums NIEKO neatsitinka!”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“Juk smulkmenų ir įvairių detalių taifūne taip lengva pasimesti, paprasčiausiai atidėti į šoną pačius svarbiausius dalykus gyvenime, kai esi įsitikinęs, jog niekas tokiai, į jokią kitą nepanašiai meilei negresia, o paskui vieną gražią dieną supranti, kad visas tavo gyvenimas pavirto į smulkmeną ir tu, laikui bėgant, tapai visiškai svetimas tam, kurį labiausiai mylėjai.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“Todos nós a caminho das opções deste minuto, desta noite, deste tempo de vida.”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
“Não faz sentido desejarmos ter tido um passado que não podemos alterar. Por que é que não havemos de desejar coisas que ainda podemos ter?”
― Richard Bach, quote from One
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“If you're not scared when you are writing you're not working hard enough. You'll be afraid but you have to keep going.”
― M. Molly Backes, quote from The Princesses of Iowa
“He knew the quiet that arrived, the blinding force of panic, and he knew too that each loss brought with it some odd, barely acknowledged sense of relief.”
― Elizabeth Strout, quote from The Burgess Boys
“You have much more than you realize. You’ll find the balance you need as soon as you let go of how you think things should be and accept them as they are. Watch for the big wave. It’ll push you in the direction of joy. You will be happy,”
― Tracy Brogan, quote from Crazy Little Thing
“There have been some saints, but they have been in small numbers, who have walked upon this sweet path to go to Jesus, because the Holy Ghost, faithful Spouse of Mary, by a singular grace disclosed it to them. Such were St. Ephrem, St. John Damascene, St. Bernard, St. Bernardine, St. Bonaventure, St. Francis de Sales, and others. But the rest of the saints, who are the greater number, although hall all had devotion to our Blessed Lady, nevertheless have either not at all, or at least very little, entered upon this way. That is why they have had to pass through ruder and more dangerous trials.”
― St. Louis de Montfort, quote from True Devotion to Mary
“It’s WA today, Minna,” called Orson from across the room, Orson’s name for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Orson played second violin with a sloppy serenity, rolling his eyes and sticking out his tongue, his bowing long and sweeping and beautiful even when out of tune. “If you must make a mistake,” he had quoted, “make it a big one.” Was it Heifetz who had said it? Perlman? Zukerman maybe?”
― Patricia MacLachlan, quote from The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt
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