# Richard Bach

- Quotes: 46
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-bach

## Books

- [Bridge Across Forever](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-bach/bridge-across-forever.md) — 12 quotes
- [Illusions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-bach/illusions.md) — 32 quotes
- [One](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-bach/one.md) — 2 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

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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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> It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-bach/one/its-like-at-the.md)

> As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming, instead of being. Beyond time, we're all one.

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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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> What I have just heard is pure . . . listen! . . . radiance, that you took from cloud-linings and sunrises and distilled into light that I can hear! Do you know how good, how lovely that is, what you can make the piano do?

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> The music broke from the piano like clear cold water from a prophet-touched rock, pouring and splashing around us while her fingers leaped and spread, curled and stiffened and melted and flickered in magic pass and streaked lightning above the keyboard. Never before had she played for me... because we were lovers now, was she free to play...?

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> I felt like a moth in a chandelier — all at once there were lots of pretty choices, but I wasn't quite sure where to fly.

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> He wanted so much to ask, and he dared so little to know.

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> We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE!

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> 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.

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> The things we own, the places we live, the events of our lives: empty settings. How easy to chase after settings, and forget diamonds! The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?

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