Richard Bach Quotes

You are the only one who can create an incredible world around you, or destroy yourself.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them.

We are what we make.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that's it.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.

At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening to it. Once you take responsibility for your side of the street, you grant yourself the power to improve every aspect of your life by simply acting and behaving differently.

Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

I need to worry about the things that I am in control of.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

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.

Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.