Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit. Richard Bach More Quotes by Richard Bach More Quotes From Richard Bach Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. Richard Bach wrecksnaturecivilization Every real teacher is myself in disguise. Richard Bach realteachingteacher don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice? Richard Bach here-and-nowthinking Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change. Richard Bach answerswatchesthinking Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Richard Bach esperantobookneeds You seek problems because you need their gifts. Richard Bach small-giftsproblemneeds An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Richard Bach airplaneunderstandingjoy The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty. Richard Bach crazybeautyworld We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks. Richard Bach yesterdaynightyears Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. Richard Bach lovecivilizationyears Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long. Richard Bach luckreallong That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some. Richard Bach patternsgameschess 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. Richard Bach marriagelandtwo I AM! YOU ARE! AND LOVE: IS ALL: THAT MATTERS! Richard Bach and-lovelove-islove He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form. "Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?" "The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other. Richard Bach voicesimplelaw 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 alhatross? 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. Richard Bach mommotherson The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice. Richard Bach statisticschoicesway Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why we call it the present. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And If not now, when? A brick alone is nothing but a brick. It takes a collection of bricks to build a house. Instructor, what?? You mean you teach best what you most need to learn Richard Bach leadershipsportsmean If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice? Richard Bach spacefriendshipthinking By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become. Richard Bach choicesheartworld
