"Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices."
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Richard Bach quotes (page 5 of 21)
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"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."
"We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory."
"Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place."
"The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go."
"Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?"
"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. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past."
"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."
"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."
"As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one."
"Those who win are those who think they can."
"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."
"Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can."
"Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually."
"One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable."
"I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten"
"Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try."
"And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand "coincidences" and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance."
"We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty to ridicule us, it is their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different! And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card-games philosophical: 'Ah well, we can't toast 'em all...'"
"You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience."