Reluctant Quotes

• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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

  Richard Bach

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.49, Delta

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• Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  1977 Illusions.

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• Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Life, Self Esteem

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

  Terence

  Life, Attitude, Positive Thinking

  "Heauton Timorumenos". Play by Terence, Act IV, scene 6, line 1 (805),

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• 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 fake messiah.

  Richard Bach

  Fake People, Truth, Integrity

  Richard Bach (2013). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.47, Random House

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• People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel most emotional about, though these are the very things they most need to talk about.

  Paul Tournier

  Emotional, People, Age

  Paul Tournier (2012). “Learn to Grow Old”, p.217, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.

  Brian Tracy

  Caring, Greatness, Compassion

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Success is a Journey: Make Your Life a Grand Adventure”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Believe, Ignorance, Butterfly

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

  Richard Bach

  Real, Character, Practice

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

  Richard Bach

  Moving, Yoga, Clouds

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo.

  Kristin Linklater

  Games, Play, Mind

  Kristin Linklater (2006). “Freeing the Natural Voice: Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Language”, Nick Hern Books

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• Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however.

  Richard Bach

  Dream, Swimming, May

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• Learning is finding out what you already know.

  Richard Bach

  Education, Learning Knowledge, Doers

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.46, Delta

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• So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.

  Ivan Krylov

  Clever, Freedom, Men

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• I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

  Brian Eno

  Stars, Want

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• Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Atheist, Giving Up, Smart

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• Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Hurt, Future, History

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Internet, Private Life

  "Just A Minute With: Paulo Coelho on digital media". Reuters interview, www.reuters.com. October 13, 2008.

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• The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.

  Maurice Strong

  Powerful, Yield, Community

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• Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there’s so much worth saving.

  Stephen King

  Mean, Men, Knowing

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.529, Simon and Schuster

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• Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Fate, Destiny

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• The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.

  Alain de Botton

  Thinking, Mind, Tasks

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.32, Penguin UK

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