Richard Bach

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.

The world’s crazy, when it comes to beauty.

If you love someone set them free. If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.

They say that history repeats itself, so if you don’t learn from the past you will make the same mistakes. So I have become an archaeologist of my own history. Digging up what has long since been buried, exhuming those forgotten fragments. Trying to distinguish what is real from folklore, trying to gain understanding, rather than relying on myths.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

He gains everyone’s approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

We are wiser than we know.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Coercion is evil precisely because it…eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.