We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests, enchanting deer and butterflies with her smile.What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure …not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth!Our century, they’ve changed clothes, of course. Dragons wear government-costumes, today, and failure-suits and disaster-outfits. Society’s demons screech, whirl down on us should we lift our eyes from the ground, dare we turn right at corners we’ve been told to turn left. So crafty have appearances become that princesses and knights can be hidden from each other, can be hidden from themselves.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Imagination
Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Friends and Friendship
My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
—Richard Bach
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Enjoyment, Time
Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren’t we already there?
—Richard Bach
Topics: Friends and Friendship
Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Birthdays
If you love something, set it free; if it comes back it’s yours, if it doesn’t, it never was.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Love, Freedom
The simplest things are often the truest.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Simplicity
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Questions, Self-Discovery
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Effort, Dreams
Fail at love, and the other tests don’t matter.
—Richard Bach
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Desires, Fear, Desire, One liners
If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Unhappiness
There is such a thing as perfection…and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth….Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Perfection
How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you’re still alive, it isn’t.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Duty
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Language, Gift
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Appropriateness, Success, Aptness
In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Living, Boredom
An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Ideas
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Thinking
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
Topics: Teaching, Learning
What the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Opportunity, Adversity, Difficulties
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
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Travel, Motivation, Tourism, Work
Everything in this book may be wrong. The Savior’s Manual
—Richard Bach
Topics: Reading
That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Learning
I don’t want to do business with those who don’t make a profit, because they can’t give the best service.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Business
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 colours from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Questions, Questioning
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
Topics: Civilization
There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster
—Richard Bach
Topics: Blessings
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