Richard Bach Quotes

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

There is nothing without reason.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Events are not a matter of chance.

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

Man blindly works the will of fate.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

Anything that happens, happens.

We make choices and are in turn made by them.

Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this world from which there can be no turning back has before it another, and it another yet. In a vast endless net. Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in the maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.

I would like to think there is a reason and a choice behind everything.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.