Richard Bach Quotes

This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

...when all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyra’s Oxford and Will’s would lie over each other again, like transparent images on two sheets of film being moved closer and closer until they merged–although they would never truly touch.

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results.

Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that it's okay, that it's all justthe way it works, a concept too powerful to ignore but too complicated to explain.

In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice.

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

To me, one of the most profound questions we can ask is: "So what?" And so what if there's an indefinite number of worlds with alternate "us-es" in them? The "so what," to me, comes alive when I ask myself: "What if I could find a way to get in touch with those alternate mes who made those choices?" That is, persons who, if I saw them now, I wouldn't even recognize because their choices, once small, have multiplied to make them such different people.

Our lives will depend upon the decisions which we make, for decisions determine destiny.

That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.

Use wisely your power of choice.

Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.

I believe that we have free will. I believe we get the chance to make choices in our lives. Not everything is set in stone from the moment we're born. We choose our destiny, our ultimate fate. But I also think that we don't realize the choices we've made until after we make them. We're racing down a freeway, only to realize we've missed all the exits, and the only direction we can go is dead ahead.

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

To live is to choose.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.