When you're flying, an airplane doesn't care who you are; it doesn't care how much money you make or don't make. All it cares about is: How well do you fly? How well do you know the airplane? How well do you know the sky? Richard Bach More Quotes by Richard Bach More Quotes From Richard Bach 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 Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter. Richard Bach tests matter love A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. Richard Bach soul-mate soulmate keys With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es." Richard Bach decision numbers giving You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. Richard Bach color light jewels If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge? Richard Bach natural-gifts natural trying That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end. Richard Bach jonathan-livingston-seagull love-story stories There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Richard Bach picks rewards years We're different, we're the same. You thought you'd never find a word to say to a woman who didn't fly airplanes. I couldn't imagine myself spending time with a man who didn't love music. Could it be it's not as important to be alike as it is to be curious? Because we're different, we can have the fun of exchanging worlds, giving our loves and excitements to each other. You can learn music, I can learn flying. And that's only the beginning. I think it would go on for us as long as we live. Richard Bach learning fun love The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care. Richard Bach writing fun thinking Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence? Richard Bach limits problem world If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it’s condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don’t have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old. Richard Bach body expression perfect What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk? Richard Bach risk odds adventure Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with fears, or if we trust the fears of others, we'll choose a path in which our city falls into the sea, or a path in which a third world war vaporizes us, or whatever other disaster is most thrilling or horrifying or fascinating for us. Richard Bach war fall moving The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor. Richard Bach prerequisites sense-of-humor firsts Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work. Richard Bach following character ideas I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love. Richard Bach spiritual lying thinking I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach proud-of-me persons life Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them. Richard Bach growth problem inspirational Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived. Richard Bach long-ago aviation adventure
