Richard Bach Quotes

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

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.

К ЧЕРТУ твою Совершенную Женщину! Она – выдуманная тобой, утыканная поддельными перьями всевозможных цветов курица весом с полтонны, которой никогда не взлететь! Все, что она может, – это бегать туда сюда, хлопать крыльями и пронзительно кудахтать, но никогда, никогда она не сможет оторваться от земли, никогда не сможет запеть. Ты, которого бросает в ужас при одной мысли о свадьбе, знаешь ли ты, что женат на этом чучеле?

Я обвенчался с идеей, которая оказалась неверной.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

"What'll be your biography? "At that point, life seemed pretty bleak. Then (insert your name) did a surprising thing...

Everything in this book may be wrong.

We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought, for instance.

You find what you love and you learn everything about it. You bet your life on what you know and run from safety, off your mountain into the air, trusting the Principle of Flight to bring you soaring up on lift you cannot see with your eyes.

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

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?

"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other."

У тебя никогда не было такого ощущения, что ты на Земле – турист?

Le paradis, c'est simplement d'être soi-même parfait.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.

Life is the unknown and the unknowable, except that we are put into this world to eat, to stay alive as lone as we possibly can.