“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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“The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth. In all sobriety, he has much more of the external appearance of one bringing alien habits from another land than of a mere growth of this one.
He cannot sleep in his own skin; he cannot trust his own instincts. He is at once a creator moving miraculous hands and fingers and a kind of cripple. He is wrapped in artificial bandages called clothes; he is propped on artificial crutches called furniture. His mind has the same doubtful liberties and the same wild limitations. Alone among the animals, he is shaken with the beautiful madness called laughter; as if he had caught sight of some secret in the very shape of the universe hidden from the universe itself. Alone among the animals he feels the need of averting his thought from the root realities of his own bodily being; of hiding them as in the presence of some higher possibility which creates the mystery of shame.”
― G.K. Chesterton, quote from The Everlasting Man
“It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or nice to do; it is now a singular imperative.”
― Lawrence Anthony, quote from Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
“Ядохме кебапчета в деня, в който се запознахме. Купихме си от една лавка и ги изпапахме прави, дърво и камък се пукаше от студ. Жената, дето ги печеше, носеше плетена вълнена жилетка и готварско боне. Придружаваше ни в глада, наблюдавайки всяка наша хапка, щастлива, че оценяваме нейните кебапчета. Те бяха гордост. Гордостта на дребния й живот на крайпътна готвачка. Виждам я, като че ли е пред мен... пролетарско лице, отрудено и все пак безкрайно мило. От онези добронамерени човеци, на които попадаш случайно и ти идва да ги прегърнеш, защото ти се усмихват от дълбините на своя човешки опит и отведнъж те измъкват от другата половина на света, онази унилата, на хората, затънали в своята локва тъмнина. Колко такива щастливци срещах тогава в Сараево! Имаха зачервени от студа бузи, да, но и от свенливост, понеже се осмеляваха да мечтаят.”
― Margaret Mazzantini, quote from Twice Born
“Innocence so constantly finds itself in a false position that inwardly innocent people learn to be disingenuous. Finding no language to speak in their own terms they resign themselves to being translated imperfectly. They exist alone; when they try and enter into relations they compromise falsifyingly- through anxiety, through desire to impart and to feel warmth. The system of our affections is too corrupt for them. They are bound to blunder, then to be told they cheat...Their singleness, their ruthlessness, their one continuous wish makes them bound to be cruel, and to suffer cruelty.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, quote from The Death of the Heart
“I like it better when my room is pitch black, when the dark is so thick it swallows me up and I feel as if I could drown in it.”
― Louise O'Neill, quote from Asking For It
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