Richard Bach

“You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.”

“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”

“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.”

“Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.”

“Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.”

“Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.”

“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.”

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”

“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”

“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”

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

“Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.”

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.”

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

“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.”

“Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.”

“True love stories never have endings.”

“Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours.”

“Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.”