Richard Bach Quotes

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until you decide to put it to work.

...we're magnets...we're iron, wrapped in copper wire, and whenever we want to magnetize ourselves, we can,..we can attract whatever we want to attract.

His vows of a moment before were forgotten, swept away in that great swift wind. Yet he felt guiltless, breaking the promises he had made himself. 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.

There is no such thing as a problem
without a girlfriend for you
In its hands
You seek problems
Because you need their gifts

Why, Jon, why?” his mother asked. “Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can’t you leave low flying to the pelicans, the albatross? Why don’t you eat? Son, you’re bone and feathers!” “I don’t mind being bone and feathers, mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can’t, that’s all. I just want to know.” “See here, Jonathan,” said his father, not unkindly. “Winter isn’t far away. Boats will be few, and the surface fish will be swimming deep. If you must study, then study food, and how to get it. This flying business is all very well, but you can’t eat a glide, you know. Don’t you forget that the reason you fly is to eat.” Jonathan

Every person, all the events in your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Everything in this book may be wrong

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed. It feels an impulsion … this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Онези, които по своя воля гинат в мрака нямат нужда от светлина

Ένας επαγγελματίας συγγραφέας είναι ένας ερασιτέχνης που δεν τα παράτησε.

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

Когато настъпи последният ни миг и погледнем назад във времето, единственият въпрос, който ще има значение ще бъде “Какво беше качеството на нашата любов?

It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned — when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse.

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.