Richard Bach Quotes

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end.

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything.

You do something when you're 20, and you're still paying for it when you're 40.

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

The difficulty in life is the choice.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.

Our days are filled with a constant stream of decisions. Most are mundane, but some are so important that they can haunt you for the rest of your life.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

I don't have regret about things I've done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don't know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.

I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.

When you are around 60, there are certain things that are completely terrifying. One of them is that you have made the wrong choices in life, and now it's too late to do anything about them.

I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does.