If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
Richard Bach
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
True love stories never have endings.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
You teach best what you most need to learn.
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Don't be dismayed by 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.
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
Learning is finding out what you already know.
The simplest things are often the truest.
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
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.
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
In order to win, you must expect to win.
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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.
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.
Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!
Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.
Get this in mind early: We never grow up.
