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Quotes from The Bridge Across Forever — Richard Bach

born 1936 United States

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As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming, instead of being. Beyond time, we're all one.

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)

He wanted so much to ask, and he dared so little to know.

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)

The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. It is intimacy.

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)

I felt like a moth in a chandelier — all at once there were lots of pretty choices, but I wasn't quite sure where to fly.

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)

The things we own, the places we live, the events of our lives: empty settings. How easy to chase after settings, and forget diamonds! The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)

What I have just heard is pure . . . listen! . . . radiance, that you took from cloud-linings and sunrises and distilled into light that I can hear! Do you know how good, how lovely that is, what you can make the piano do?

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Bach (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.