Quotes From "Illusions: The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah" By Richard Bach

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your...
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. Richard Bach
You're never given a dream without also being given the...
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You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. Richard Bach
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the...
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach
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The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages. Richard Bach
If you really want to remove a cloud from your...
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If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it. Richard Bach
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Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy. Richard Bach
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you...
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats. Richard Bach
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before...
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Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. Richard Bach
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. Richard Bach
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one famiy grow up under the same roof Richard Bach
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I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you. Richard Bach
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In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime. Richard Bach
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Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. Richard Bach
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But one creature said at last, "I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom. Richard Bach
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Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are. Richard Bach
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The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've gotresponsibilities. Richard Bach
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If you argue for your limitations they are yours Richard Bach
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We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe. Richard Bach