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One One by 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.”
Richard Bach, One
“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”
Richard Bach, One
“Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.”
Richard Bach, One
“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.”
Richard Bach, One
“One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.”
Richard Bach, One
“There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.”
Richard Bach, One
“Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is reality. That is the truth. What we make of it is up to us, as the painting of the sunrise is up to the artist. In our world humanity has strayed from that love. It lives hatred and power struggles and manipulations of the earth itself for its own narrow reasons. Continue and no one will see the sunrise. The sunrise will always exist, of course, but people on earth will know nothing of it and finally even stories of its beauty will fade from our knowing.”
Richard Bach, One
“It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?”
Richard Bach, One
“An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown”
Richard Bach, One
“Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.”
Richard Bach, One
“Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.”
Richard Bach, One
“nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.”
Richard Bach, One
“There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.”
Richard Bach, One
“Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.”
Richard Bach, One
“One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.”
Richard Bach, One
“Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?”
Richard Bach, One
“Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.”
Richard Bach, One
“We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.”
Richard Bach, One
“How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?”
Richard Bach, One
“You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.”
Richard Bach, One
“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?”
Richard Bach, One
“You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?”
Richard Bach, One
“What about everybody else Pye? How many lives can there be in one universe?'[...] 'How many lives Richard?'[...]'One.'.”
Richard Bach, One
“Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.”
Richard Bach, One
“In half a century of challenge and learning and trial-and-error, each of us had struggled from hard times to a present lovely beyond our dreams.”
Richard Bach, One
“Hatred is love without the facts.
Whoever we dislike, are there facts we could learn that would change our minds?”
Richard Bach, One
“Nemalonumai nėra pats blogiausias dalykas, kuris mums gali atsitikti. Baisiausia yra, kai mums NIEKO neatsitinka!”
Richard Bach, One
“Juk smulkmenų ir įvairių detalių taifūne taip lengva pasimesti, paprasčiausiai atidėti į šoną pačius svarbiausius dalykus gyvenime, kai esi įsitikinęs, jog niekas tokiai, į jokią kitą nepanašiai meilei negresia, o paskui vieną gražią dieną supranti, kad visas tavo gyvenimas pavirto į smulkmeną ir tu, laikui bėgant, tapai visiškai svetimas tam, kurį labiausiai mylėjai.”
Richard Bach, One
“Não faz sentido desejarmos ter tido um passado que não podemos alterar. Por que é que não havemos de desejar coisas que ainda podemos ter?”
Richard Bach, One
“Todos nós a caminho das opções deste minuto, desta noite, deste tempo de vida.”
Richard Bach, One