Richard Bach
American author.
Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place.
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.
No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.
"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other."
And [the Messiah] said unto them, "If a man told God that he wanted most of all to help the suffering world, no matter the price to himself, and God answered and told him what he must do, should the man do as he is told?"
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty.
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.
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.
The original sin is to limit the Is. —Don't.
Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
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.
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.
"Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no need of that kind of promise."
He wanted so much to ask, and he dared so little to know.
"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."...
"You're quoting Snoopy the dog, I believe?"
"I'll quote the truth wherever I find it thank you."
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.