Quotes by Richard Bach

There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from.
~~~Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
~~~Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
~~~Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Being true to anyone else or anything else is ... impossible....
~~~Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.
~~~Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

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.
~~~Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

In order to live free and happily, we must sacrifice boredom.
It is not always an easy sacrifice.
~~~Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

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.
~~~Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

All at once, I saw the obvious. The world is as it is because that is the way we wish it to be. Only as our wish changes does the world change. Whatever we pray for we get.
~~~A Gift of Wings

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