Richard Bach

“A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. ”

“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.”

“What matters most:"What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh."Wind, Sand and Stars.”

“Os livros são escritos devido a anos virados do avesso por ideias que não nos libertam até serem escritas e, até mesmo então, a escrita é o último recurso, um resgate desesperado que pagamos para que a vida nos seja devolvida.”

“O oposto de solidão não é companhia, é intimidade.”

“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”

“You seek problems because you need their gifts.”

“If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.”

“Everything is exactly as it is for a reason.The crumb on your table isno mystical reminder of this morning's cookie,it is there because you have chosen not to remove it.No exceptions.”

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“The simplest things are often the truest.”

“In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.”

“True love stories never have endings.”

“What about everybody else Pye? How many lives can there be in one universe?'[...] 'How many lives Richard?'[...]'One.'.”

“Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.”

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”

“Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.”

“The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.”

“If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”

“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.”

“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”

“Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”

“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.”

“You are never given a wish without what it takes to make it true.”

“You're always free to change your mindand choose a different future, or a different past.”

“An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown”

“Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.”

“Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.”

“The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.”

“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.”

“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”

“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.”

“Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.”

“Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.”

“To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.”

“When you have come to the edge of all the light you have And step into the darkness of the unknown Believe that one of the two will happen to you Either you'll find something solid to stand on Or you'll be taught how to fly!”

“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.”

“What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.”

“I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it’s not finished yet.”

“It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare.”

“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.”

“When we put up with any situation we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself.”

“It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.”

“Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.”

“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. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?”

“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.”

“One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.”