Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. Richard Bach More Quotes by Richard Bach More Quotes From Richard Bach It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid? Richard Bach eating-disorder anorexia self How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble. Richard Bach compassionate trouble easy For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. Richard Bach gulls flying matter Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice. Richard Bach jonathan-seagull jonathan-livingston-seagull practice I think there's an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. It's a lovely sight, watching it work. Richard Bach life believe thinking You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love. Richard Bach real practice mean Get this in mind early: We never grow up. Richard Bach growing-up grows mind We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome. Richard Bach weight overcoming world Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! Richard Bach fighting gone ideas We can start working with time if you wish," Chiang said, "till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to begin to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love. Richard Bach powerful kindness fun Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream. Richard Bach lovely miracle dream He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all Richard Bach jonathan-livingston-seagull perfect ideas Reality is divinely indifferent. Richard Bach indifferent reality We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. Richard Bach flying skills ignorance 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. Richard Bach moments reality world One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. Richard Bach cosmic law-of-attraction thinking Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it. Richard Bach powerful opportunity commitment Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer. Richard Bach discipline team skills Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too. Richard Bach jonathan-livingston-seagull break body Everything you've said, everything you want to believe is already true. You may not find some of it for a while, and some of it might take longer than that, but that doesn't stop it from being true this minute! Richard Bach want may believe
