Richard Bach Quotes

No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning.

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'

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

Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute.

We design our lives through the power of choices.

Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance.

The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.

We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined, in large part, by the choices we make now. We cannot always control our circumstances, but we can and do choose our response to whatever arises. Reclaiming the power of choice, we find the courage to live fully in the world.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

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

You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right.

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

You are the sum total of your choices.

One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.