Richard Bach

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

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

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

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

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

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

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

All we do is drive. All we do is think about the feelings that we hide.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

They are different now than they were. My mother never had to say she was a queen to be one. I instinctively knew. So it makes sense now that I am sorely confused by the women who try to convince me with words.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives- when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail inboxes are empty- the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we’ve loved others and whether they’ve loved us.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love can be hard. Love requires you to be kind when you are angry, patient when you feel anxious, compassionate when you judge others, caring when you feel apathetic, trust when you’ve been wronged, let go when you want to hold on, know that the other person is you, take risks when you’re scared, to always see the lesson and never look back once you’ve decided. – Jackson Kiddard

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

I have you in one world, but I need you in two: the hands and the heart, just one won’t do.

Real love is freedom, and this is what you’ve been given by the Creator – the freedom to love and to choose your own path.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

Crack me open and get drunk on the contents of my spirit. Warning: consuming too much may have permanent effects.