"Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn the m there.

that you choose to do with them is up to you." Richard Bach "Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquai ntances will know you in a thousand years." Richard Bach "Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true." Richard Bach "Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anyt hing to learn from them." Richard Bach "You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful s piritual being that is your real self." Richard Bach "Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to a nyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a false mess iah." Richard Bach "But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will k now, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.." Richard Bach "For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating.For this gull, though , it was not eating that mattered, but flight." Richard Bach "That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lo se and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we nev er had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning." Richard Bach "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." Richard Bach "Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can." Richard Bach "Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet aga in. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends." Richard Bach "The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work." Richard Bach "Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." Richard Bach "Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all le arners, doers and teachers." Richard Bach "Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness." Richard Bach "Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long." Richard Bach "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." Richard Bach "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." Richard Bach "The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly." Richard Bach "That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lo se and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we nev

er had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning." Richard Bach "Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end." Richard Bach "A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit." Richard Bach "Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice it ." Richard Bach "If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they do n't they never were." Richard Bach "If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a pro blem." Richard Bach "Listen to what you know instead of what you fear." Richard Bach "The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." Richard Bach "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly." Richard Bach "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." Richard Bach "Learning is finding out what you already know." Richard Bach "We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunligh t, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in th e night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I fo und that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homem ade masks." Richard Bach Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Francis Bacon A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Francis Bacon A man is but what he knows. Francis Bacon Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. Francis Bacon Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. Francis Bacon All rising to great place is by a winding stair. Francis Bacon God Almighty first planted a garden. Francis Bacon A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. Francis Bacon Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. Francis Bacon