Richard Bach Quotes

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

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

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

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.

If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that's most likely never going to happen. It's also a way to manipulate other people.

I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.

Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.

You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.

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.

Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention.

All of us prepare our own lunch. If we don't like our jobs, if we don't like the state of our relationships, if we don't like what's happening to our spiritual lives - we have no one to blame but ourselves. Because God has given us free will.

Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

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.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

An artist is his own fault.