Richard Bach Quotes

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• If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
• You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
• Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
• If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
• Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
• I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
• Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those…
• There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn;…
• 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.
• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
• Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but…
• Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
• Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll…
• Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
• True love stories never have endings.
• 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…
• Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
• The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
• Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
• Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up…

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