“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”
More from Richard Bach on Life
“Things hurt more when you were alone, that was all.”
“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.”
“What the caterpillar calls a tragedy the Master calls a butterfly.”
“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.”
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.”
“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”
“No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.”
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
“Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.”
“The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.”
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Mitch Albom
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Henry Miller
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Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
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Virginia Woolf
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Joseph Campbell
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
Sarah Dessen
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