Richard Bach Quotes

If you are open-minded and you let the universe come in, you never know where things might go.

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.

You've got to embrace what you don't know.

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

I've learned to never rule anything in or out.

I never rule anything out, you never know what's to come.

ALICE She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME And she grew so tall, She ate from a plate called TASTE ME And down she shrank so small. And so she changed, while other folks Never tried nothin' at all.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

I know for sure that nothing is guaranteed. Life always changes. I know for sure that I'm open to all possibilities always... let's just say my life is never boring.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.