How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble. Richard Bach More Quotes by Richard Bach More Quotes From Richard Bach We design our lives through the power of choices. Richard Bach design choices graduation nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make. Richard Bach choices mean thinking The gull sees farthest who flies highest Richard Bach gulls achievement vision Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. Richard Bach soul-mate soulmate anniversary Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however. Richard Bach swimming dream may Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up on the mountain ridges where very few people have been I have thought back to what every flyer knows. That there is this special world in which we dwell that's not marked by boundaries, it's not a map. We're not hedged about with walls and desks. So often in an office the very worst thing that can happen is you could drop your pencil. Out there's a reminder that are a lot worse things, and a lot greater rewards. Richard Bach wall office order Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true. Richard Bach said life world You're never given a dream without the power to make it true. Richard Bach jonathan-livingston-seagull given dream One must first learn to fall if one would fly. Richard Bach ifs fall firsts Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love. Richard Bach respect loneliness love Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. Richard Bach not-caring bullying kids Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite life, choosing its playground; protect that the world you know exists with your consent and for your own good reasons; protect that your purpose and mission is to shine love in your own playful way, in the moments you decide will be most dramatic. Richard Bach wall shining winning Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word? Richard Bach touch-someone doe writing Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions. Richard Bach cookies tables morning You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way". Richard Bach being-yourself unique inspirational Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy. Richard Bach remember-where-you-came crazy laughing Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. Richard Bach life-decision choices remember Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. Richard Bach education motivational inspirational I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom. Richard Bach boredom currents letting-go Amazing. You were so attached to it, and it still disappeared for you." “Attached! I was whocking that cloud with everything I had! Fireballs, laser beams, vacuum cleaner a block high...” “Negative attachments, Richard. If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That’s all there is to it. Richard Bach block clouds thinking