Richard Bach Quotes

Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.

You are.

Know thyself.

I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.

It took a long time, and a lot of years, for me to get comfortable with myself, like the way I am now.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

When you start to find balance, then you start to ask more important questions, like, 'Who am I really?' That's when you start seeing that every single person around you is a human being just doing the best that they can.

The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it.

I'm happy about who and what I am - and I can't wait to find out who I'll be tomorrow.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.

Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.