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Remember Where You Came From, Where You're Going, And Why You Created This Mess You Got Yourself Into In The First Place.
-Richard Bach
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Remember Where You Came

Richard Bach
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Remember Where You Came From, Where You're Going, And Why You Created This Mess You Got Yourself Into In The First Place.

Understanding the Quote: "remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created..."

This quote by Richard Bach reflects deeply on the theme of determination. It connects to the universal human journey of purpose, motivation, and reflection. Often categorized under Determination, Acceptance, Persistence, the quote offers insight, emotional clarity, and intellectual inspiration to readers worldwide.

Whether you’re a student exploring new ideas, a leader trying to motivate your team, or someone seeking direction in life — this quote provides value. It resonates because it’s more than words — it’s a bridge between experience and wisdom. It shows how Richard Bach interprets life's core challenges and triumphs.

Lessons From the Quote

This quote teaches resilience and focus. It reminds readers that no matter where they stand in life, reflection and self-awareness lead to growth. Each word has meaning, and when studied, it becomes clear how impactful thoughtful language can be.

About Richard Bach

Richard Bach is celebrated for insightful thoughts on determination and acceptance. Their legacy lives on through writings that guide, comfort, and inspire. Discover more on their profile page.

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  • Use it as a daily affirmation or reminder.

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Believe
Thinking
There Were Times In My Life When I Said, "oh God, I'm Making A Terrible, Terrible Mistake Here." And On Another Level It Looked As If That's Exactly What I Had Done. All Of Us Can Look Back Across Our Lives And See What We Thought Was A Disaster Was Actually A Blessing - From A Long-term Perspective, It Was A Blessing. With Practice, We Can Shorten The Length Of Time Between "what A Dumb Mistake I've Made" And "what A Brilliant Choice That Was.
Mistake
Blessing
Practice
What Matters Is How I Use What I Know, Every Minute Of Every Day; How I Use It To Remember, In The Midst Of The Game.
What Matters
Games
Use
For A Moment, Off Balance, Was I Annoyed? Anger Is Always Fear, I Thought, And Fear Is Always Fear Of Loss. Would I Lose Myself If He Made Those Choices? It Took A Second To Settle Down: I'd Lose Nothing. They'd Be His Wishes, Not Mine, And He's Free To Live As He Wants. The Loss Would Come If I Dared Force Him, Tried To Live For Him And Me As Well. There'd Be Disaster Worse Than Life On A Bar Stool.
Fear
Loss
Choices
Those Who Win Are Those Who Think They Can.
Positive
Attitude
Winning
We [people] Have A Teacher! The Teacher Is Ourselves! We Already Know Everything We Need To Know - Our Challenge Is To Discover That We Know It. Turning To Gurus, I Think, We Become Guru-dependent, No Different From Drug-dependent, Alcohol-dependent - Needing An Outside Force To Control Our Lives.
Teacher
Thinking
People
Fly Free And Happy Beyond Birthdays And Across Forever, And We'll Meet Now And Then When We Wish, In The Midst Of The One Celebration That Never Can End.
Life
Birthday
Forever
We Choose Our Next World Through What We Learn In This One. Learn Nothing, And The Next World Is The Same As This One, All The Same Limitations And Lead Weights To Overcome.
Overcoming
World
Weight
Everything Of This Life As A Mortal Is Fiction. It Seems Real, But...
Real
Fiction
This Life
We [americans] Are Game-playing, Fun-loving Creatures; We Are The Otters Of The Universe.
Fun
Games
Otters
The Simplest Things Are Often The Truest.
Simple
Simplicity
Less Is More
When One Individual Writer Sings Her Song Of Beauty, She Changes The Lives Of A Million Others.
Song
Individual
Millions
Never Had I Understood That I Command, With Absolute Authority, The Ship Of My Life! I Decide Its Mission And Rules And Discipline, At My Word Waits Every Tool And Sail, Every Cannon, The Strength Of Every Soul On Board. I'm Master Of A Team Of Passionate Skills To Sail Me Through Hell's Own Jaws The Second I Nod The Direction To Steer.
Team
Skills
Discipline
Why, Jon, Why?" His Mother Asked. "why Is It So Hard To Be Like The Rest Of The Flock, Jon? Why Can't You Leave Low Flying To The Pelicans, The Alhatross? Why Don't You Eat? Son, You're Bone And Feathers!" "i Don't Mind Being Bone And Feathers Mom. I Just Want To Know What I Can Do In The Air And What I Can't, That's All. I Just Want To Know.
Mom
Mother
Son
I'm Not A Celebrity Or Near Celebrity. Sometimes People Will Say, "you're Famous" And That Stops Me Right There. What Does Fame Mean? Fame Is In The Eye Of The Beholder. So, If Somebody Wants To Call Me 'famous', That's Their Business. I'm Just Me, A Guy Who Messes Around With Airplanes And Writes Books That Make Sense To Him.
Book
Mean
Eye
Evolution Made Civilization Steward Of This Planet. A Hundred Thousand Years Later, The Steward Stood Before Evolution Not Helper But Destroyer, Not Healer But Parasite. So Evolution Withdrew Its Gift, Passed Civilization By, Rescued The Planet From Intelligence And Handed It To Love.
Love
Years
Civilization
Character Comes From Following Our Highest Sense Of Right, From Trusting Ideas Without Being Sure They’ll Work.
Character
Ideas
Following
Not Being Known Doesn't Stop The Truth From Being True.
Inspirational
Truth
Statistics
The Way To Tell If Your Job Is Done: If You're Alive, You've Got A Job.
Jobs
Work
Done
Everything In This Book May Be Wrong. - The Savior's Manual
Book
Reading
May
Just Be Who You Are, Calm And Clear And Bright. Automatically, As We Shine Who We Are, Asking Ourselves Every Minute Is This What I Really Want To Do, Doing It Only When We Answer Yes, Automatically That Turns Away Those Who Have Nothing To Learn From Who We Are And Attracts Those Who Do, And From Whom We Have To Learn, As Well.
Learning
Shining
Be Who You Are
Reality Lies Far Beyond Space And Time, And I Need To Know Why.
Lying
Reality
Space
You Teach Best That Which You Need Most To Learn.
Needs
Teach
Not Being Known Doesn't Stop The Truth From Being True. You Are Led Through Your Lifetime By The Inner Learning Creature, The Playful Spiritual Being That Is Your Real Self. What The Caterpillar Calls The End Of The World, The Master Calls A Butterfly. Learning Is Finding Out What We 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 And Teachers. The Best Way To Pay For A Lovely Moment Is To Enjoy It.
Spiritual
Teacher
Real
Thought Plus Belief Equals Manifestation.
Belief
Plus
Manifestation
This Kind Of Thinking, He Found, Is Not The Way To Make One's Self Popular With Other Birds. Even His Parents Were Dismayed As Jonathan Spent Whole Days Alone, Making Hundreds Of Low-level Glides, Experimenting.
Thinking
Self
Bird
Anything We Need To Know, We Can Learn It From A Book. Reading, Careful Study, A Little Practice, And We’re Throwing Knives Expertly, Overhauling Engines, Speaking Esperanto Like Natives.
Reading
Book
Knives
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 From The World Around Us.
Years
Choices
Different
How Can A Deer Tell When A Leaf Falls Silent In The Forest? She Hears It Breathing Differently.
Fall
Breathing
Deer
I Like That You Can Open Up Any One Of My Books Anywhere And Immediately Be Lost. I Just Love Them So Much.
Book
Lost
Good And Evil Are Not What Our Parents Told Us, Not What Our Church Tells Us, Or Our Country, Not What Anybody Else Tells Us! All Of Us Decide Good And Evil For Ourselves, Automatically, By Choosing What We Want To Do!
Country
Evil
Parent
Reality Is Divinely Indifferent.
Reality
Indifferent
Why Fly? Simple. I'm Not Happy Unless There's Some Room Between Me And The Ground.
Simple
Flying
Rooms
The Big Thing About Writing Is Three Commands: Have Fun. Don't Think. Don't Care.
Fun
Writing
Thinking
Boredom Between Two People Doesn't Come From Being Together Physically. It Comes From Being Apart Mentally And Spiritually.
Two
People
Boredom
How Is It We’re The Lucky Ones, Living A Life That The Children-we-were Took For Dreams?
Dream
Children
Lucky
The First Prerequisite Of An Advanced Being Is A Sense Of Humor.
Firsts
Sense Of Humor
Prerequisites
The Bond That Links Your True Family Is Not One Of Blood, But Of Respect And Joy In Each Other's Life.
Life
Family
Spiritual
Sometimes When You Say Goodbye, That's The Right Thing To Do In A Relationship.
Goodbye
Sometimes
Things To Do
How Can We Resent The Life We've Created For Ourselves?
Resent
All We See Of Someone At Any Moment Is A Snapshot Of Their Life, There In Riches Or Poverty, In Joy Or Despair. Snapshots Don't Show The Million Decisions That Led To That Moment.
Judging
Decision
Joy
Never Stop Feeling And Seeing And Being Excited With Great Things Like Air And Engines And Sounds Of Sunlight Within You.
Air
Feelings
Sound
Sense Of Family Is Enormously Important To Me. In The Larger Sense, We're All Of Us Family; We're All Of Us Soulmates.
Soulmate
Important
Testing Ourselves Over And Again, Learning Love And Love And Love!
And Love
Testing
Adventuring
Whatever It Is That Calls Us, That's Our Path. And As We Walk That Path, We Have A Chance To Shine Forth Who We Are. It Affects Other People Around Us.
People
Shining
Who We Are
The Only Thing That's Real In Any Universe [is] That Brilliant Fire Of Love That Burns To The Exclusion Of Everything Else. As We Recognize The Presence Of Love, We Break Through The Wall Of Grief That Would Try To Convince Us That The Dear Soul With Whom We Have Learned And Loved So Much No Longer Exists, Or That She Or He Cannot Speak With Us. There Is No Wall That Love Cannot Vaporize. We May Believe In Death, Love Doesn't.
Wall
Real
Grief
You Are Led, When You Share Your Loves, To An Enchanted Life Of Inner Happiness, Which Unsharing Others Cannot Know.
Enchanted
Share
Inner Happiness
When You Dream, All The Scenery, Characters, Events, Perils, And Outcomes Are Built From Your Own Consciousness, The Darks And Oppressions As Well As The Delights. Same With The World Awake, Though It Takes You Longer To Build It.
Dream
Character
Events
A Soulmate Is Someone Who Has Locks That Fit Our Keys, And Keys To Fit Our Locks.
Soulmate
Keys
Soul Mate
What A Delighted Fascination It Is, To Stand Aside And Watch Our Dearest Friend Perform On Stage Without Us.
Fascination
Watches
Stage
There Is No Such Thing As A Problem Without A Gift.
Gratitude
Problem
Messiah
Choose A Love And Work To Make It True, And Somehow, Something Will Happen, Something You Couldn’t Plan, Will Come Along To Move Like To Like, To Set You Loose, To Set You On The Way To Your Next Brick Wall.
Wall
Moving
Way
Sometimes When Learning Comes Before Experience It Doesn't Make Sense Right Away.
Inspirational
Learning
Sometimes
I Am Tired Of Clinging. Though I Cannot See It With My Eyes, I Trust That The Current Knows Where It Is Going. I Shall Let Go, And Let It Take Me Where It Will. Clinging, I Shall Die Of Boredom.
Letting Go
Boredom
Currents
A Drug For Everything Is Madness. Legal Or Not, Prescribed Or Not, Over-counter Under-counter Bought For Blood On Street-corners-every Pill Separates Us From Knowing Our Own Completion And From Being Taught By What's True.
Blood
Knowing
Drug
True Love Stories Never Have Endings.
Love
Anniversary
Valentines Day
Navigate By The Same Star, Unwilling To Change, And You Find Yourself Not Only Off-course But Lost.
Change
Stars
Finding Yourself
If We Must Lose Wife Or Husband When We Live To Our Highest Right, We Lose An Unhappy Marriage As Well, And We Gain Ourselves. But If A Marriage Is Born Between Two Already Self-discovered, What A Lovely Adventure Begins, Hurricanes And All.
Funny
Husband
Adventure
Listen,' He Said. 'it's Important. We Are All. Free. To Do. Whatever. We Want. To Do.
Important
Want
Said
I Have A Way Of Finding What Is True For Me, And It’s Not Finished Yet.
Way
Findings
Finished
Shop For Security Over Happiness And We Buy It At That Price.
Shops
Security
Never Stop Being A Kid, Richard. Never Stop Feeling And Seeing And Being Excited With Great Things Like Air And Engines And Sounds Of Sunlight Within You. Wear Your Little Mask If You Must To Protect You From The World But If You Let That Kid Disappear You Are Grown Up And You Are Dead.
Kids
Air
Feelings
Grief Is No More Necessary When We Understand Death Than Fear Is Necessary When We Understand Flying.
Grief
Flying
Sorrow
Listen To What You Know Instead Of What You Fear.
Life
Fear
Listening
A Moment Later Jonathan's Body Wavered In The Air, Shimmering, And Began To Go Transparent. "don't Let Them Spread Silly Rumors About Me, Or Make Me A God. O.k., Fletch? I'm A Seagull. I Like To Fly, Maybe...
Silly
Air
Rumor
We Wait All These Years To Find Someone Who Understands Us, I Thought, Someone Who Accepts Us As We Are, Someone With A Wizard's Power To Melt Stone To Sunlight, Who Can Bring Us Happiness In Spite Of Trials, Who Can Face Our Dragons In The Night, Who Can Transform Us Into The Soul We Choose To Be. Just Yesterday I Found That Magical Someone Is The Face We See In The Mirror: It's Us And Our Homemade Masks.
Night
Years
Yesterday
Your Harshest Truths Are Dreams, And Your Gentlest Dreams Are True.
Dream
Life Does Not Require Us To Be Consistent, Cruel, Patient, Helpful, Angry, Rational, Thoughtless, Loving, Rash, Open-minded, Neurotic, Careful, Rigid, Tolerant, Wasteful, Rich, Downtrodden, Gentle, Sick, Considerate, Funny, Stupid, Healthy, Greedy, Beautiful, Lazy, Responsive, Foolish, Sharing, Pressured, Intimate, Hedonistic, Industrious, Manipulative, Insightful, Capricious, Wise, Selfish, Kind Or Sacrificed. Life Does, However, Require Us To Live With The Consequences Of Our Choices.
Funny
Beautiful
Wise
Within Each Of Us Lies The Power Of Our Consent To Health And Sickness, To Riches And Poverty, To Freedom And To Slavery. It Is We Who Control These, And Not Another.
Inspirational
Motivational
Lying
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