Some inspirational quotes...can you name the author?

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Bad things are not the worst thing that can happen to us .
NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us."

"An easy life doesn't teach us anything.
In the end it's learning that matters what we've learned and how we've grown."

"We design our lives through the power of choices."

"We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture."

"How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?
Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us?
Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?"

"Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use 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."

"I gave my life to become the person I am right now.
Was it worth it?"

"A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow.
There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees form the world around us."

"...there is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside."

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."

"You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past."

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."

"Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?"

"The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change."

"Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. that you choose to do with them is up to you."

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

"Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true."

"Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them."

"You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self."

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a false messiah."

"But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.."

"For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating.For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight."

"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."

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."

"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."

"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."

"Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers."

"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."

"Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long."

"If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim."

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours."
 
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We design our lives through the power of choices
Richard Bach
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You are correct only one author, these are among some of his best quotes, but i was dissapointed to see some of them edited and lots of good ones left off the list on this particular site...Ever read the Celestine Prophesy Whale? The story line was pretty weak but the "9 insights" can be a usefull tool in life.
 

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You are correct sir! All from one author, one of my favorites, Richard Bach never fails to inspire. Although the quotes listed are among his best, there were still a few missing and a few were edited down...Ever read the Celestine Prophesy Whale? Although it had a pretty thin story line, the "nine insights" can be very usefull when applied correctly.

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I know the book, actually I meet James Redfield when he was filming screen shots in Costa Rica for the Celestine Prophecy last year.
 

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I wasn't impressed neither by the book or the author...
 

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defenatly thin storyline...
but the insights which resolve from ancient texts around the world are real and extreemly aplicable to life. i went to peru because of the book. neat place.
 

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I agree, I almost went to Peru as well but opted for a five month hitchiking/ backpacking trip that spanned five states camping and riding almost the entire time. I think was the point of Redfields story is that you can draw energy from your surroundings regardless of location. Tread lightly and only move with good intentions and everything else will fall into place.
I wonder if Bach and Redfield ever hung out.

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