Richard Bach Quotes

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

At first, not having Mina with us made us all feel lonely, and there was an emptiness without her. However, Mina is trying her best to participate, so even when she's not with us in person, she's still always with us in spirit.

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.

You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.

When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.

This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner.

Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.

I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again.

Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.

You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else.

Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought perhaps it didn't matter that they faced in opposite directions - so long as they faced each other.' Roger Wakefield {Drums Of Autumn}

In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.

Some things are created to be together.

Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.

The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.

Who can determine where one ends and the other begins?

You have made me known to friends whom I knew not. You have given me seats in homes not my own. You have brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger... When one knows You, then there is no alien, and no door is shut.

I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

Remember that whatever you do or wherever you are, you are never alone.