Richard Bach · 400 pages
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“I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you´re alive it isn't.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“I had grown up in a house with a fence around it, and in this fence was a white smooth wooden gate, two holes bored round and low together so the dog could see through. One night, the moon high, late for me home from the school dance, I remember that I stopped, hand on the gate, and spoke so quietly to myself and to the woman that I would love that not even the dog could have heard.
I don’t know where you are, but you’re living right now, somewhere on this earth. And one day you and I are going to touch this gate where I’m touching it now. Your hand will touch this very wood, here! Then we’ll walk through and we’ll be full of a future and of a past and we’ll be to each other like no one else has ever been. We can’t meet now, I don’t know why. But some day our questions will be answers and we’ll be caught in something so bright...and every step I take is one step closer on a bridge we must cross to meet.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. It’s only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“From time to time it's fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to ourselves, 'I am the sorcerer, and when I open my eyes I shall see a world that I have created, and for which I and only I am completely responsible.' Slowly then, eyelids open like curtains lifting stage-center. And sure enough, there's our world, just the way we've built it.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Whatever enchants also guides and protects.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and love!”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Has it ever happened, you’ve seen a striking film, beautifully written and acted and photographed, that you walk out of the theater glad to be a human being and you say to yourself I hope they make a lot of money from that? I hope the actors, I hope the director earns a million dollars for what they’ve done, what they’ve given me tonight? And you go back and see the movie again and you’re happy to be a tiny part of the system that is rewarding those people with every ticket...the actors I see on the screen, they’ll get twenty cents of this very dollar I’m paying now; they’ll be able to buy an ice cream cone any flavor they want from their share of my ticket alone. Glorious moments in art in books and films and dance, they’re delicious because we see ourselves in glory’s mirror.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Passionately obsessed by anything we love--an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love....”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“If you bind too strongly to things and people, when they disappear, it will not go maybe even a part of ourselves?”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Right at the beginning, before the pianist could get her wheels up and fly into that storm, she was hit with a con brio, which I figured meant she had to play either with brightness, with coldness, or with cheese.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“O oposto de solidão não é companhia, é intimidade.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“WE THINK, sometimes, there's not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests, enchanting deer and butterflies with her smile. We think sometimes that ours is an age past frontiers, past adventures. Destiny, it's way over the horizon; glowing shadows galloped past long ago, and gone. What a pleasure to be wrong.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Интересно, как себя чувствует тот, – сказала она, – кто покончил с собой, а потом понял, что его родная душа все еще живет на земле и ждет его?”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Следуй неизменно за одной и той же звездой и обнаружишь, что не только сбился с пути, но и вовсе потерялся.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“He's changing. Every day more remote, protected, distant. He builds fests now for the soulmate he hasn't found, bricking wall and maze and mountain fortress, dares her to find him at the hidden center of them all Here's an A in self-protection from the one in the world he might love and who might someday love him.”
― Richard Bach, quote from The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Richard Bach
Born place: in Oak Park, IL, The United States
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