Richard Bach

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

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

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.

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.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

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.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

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

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

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

Whatever harm I would do to another, I shall do first to myself.As I respect and am kind to myself, so shall I respect and be kind to peers, to elders, to kits.I claim for others the freedom to live as they wish, to think and believe as they will. I claim that freedom for myself.I shall make each choice and live each day to my highest sense of right.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.