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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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morality
inspiration
life
wisdom
encouragement
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You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.
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dreams
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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 will see the way to fly.
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I'm here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I'm trapped here, but because I'd rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.
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love
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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.
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Richard Bach |
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I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
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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 to you.
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You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way"."
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Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.
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We teach best what we most need to learn.
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Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.
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spiritual
inspirational
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Richard Bach |
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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.
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inspiration
on-fiction
values
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That's why love stories don't have endings! They don't have endings because love doesn't end.
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Richard Bach |
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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.
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
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inspirational
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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
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Richard Bach |
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Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.
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Richard Bach |
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Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't.
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Richard Bach |
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You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.
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Richard Bach |
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Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.
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Richard Bach |
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Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
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Richard Bach |
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A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.
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change
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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.
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learning
teaching
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Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.
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Richard Bach |
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Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.
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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
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Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.
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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
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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.
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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; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
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Richard Bach |
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He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all
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Richard Bach |
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Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too."
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Richard Bach |
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We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
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Richard Bach |
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The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.
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Richard Bach |
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We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.
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religion
thought-provoking
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Richard Bach |
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Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect. -And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.
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Richard Bach |
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Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.
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Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.
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Richard Bach |
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I had grown up in a house with a fence around it, and in this fence was a white smooth wooden gate, two holes bored round and low together so the dog could see through. One night, the moon high, late for me home from the school dance, I remember that I stopped, hand on the gate, and spoke so quietly to myself and to the woman that I would love that not even the dog could have heard. I don't know where you are, but you're living right now, s..
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Richard Bach |
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This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.
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Richard Bach |
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Of course there's destiny, but destiny doesn't push you where you don't want to go. You're the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.
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