Richard Bach Quotes

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.

Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live!
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

چرا دشوارترین کار در جهان این است که پرنده ای را متقاعد کنی، آزاد است؟

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.

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.

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!

A moment later Jonathan’s body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. “Don’t let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I’m a seagull. I like to fly, maybe…

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again