Richard Bach Quotes

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.

Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you dont.

Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

Change takes courage.

Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

I know I can't stay here forever

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Leaving high school. It's sad and you're going to miss all your friends. You're going to miss your life and you've been doing that for the past four years, and it's comfortable. But now, there's something possibly bigger on the horizon, just new and fresh and exciting. I think we all kind of felt like that.

Nobody stays in the world that you've seen them in before.

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field

Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?

Change is the very fabric of our time.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.