Richard Bach famous quotes

You teach best what you most need to learn.
-- Richard Bach

#Education #Wisdom #Learning

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...
-- Richard Bach

#Real #Fiction #This Life

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
-- Richard Bach

#Love #Inspirational #Moving On

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.
-- Richard Bach

#Learning #Shining #Be Who You Are

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
-- Richard Bach

#Life #Letting Go #Mistake

Don't be dismayed by 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.
-- Richard Bach

#Inspirational #Friendship #Sports

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
-- Richard Bach

#Inspirational #Positive #Future

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.
-- Richard Bach

#Mistake #Unexpected #Learning Experience

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
-- Richard Bach

#Relationship #Positive #Spiritual

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise.
-- Richard Bach

#Wedding #Soulmate #Self

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.
-- Richard Bach

#Inspirational #Change #Inspiring

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.
-- Richard Bach

#Inspirational #Matter #Imagine

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
-- Richard Bach

#Inspirational #Change #Inspiring

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
-- Richard Bach

#Motivational #Depression #Believe

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
-- Richard Bach

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
-- Richard Bach

#Friendship #Happiness #Real Friends

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.
-- Richard Bach

#Life #Happy #World

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
-- Richard Bach

#Happiness #Being Happy #Inspiration

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
-- Richard Bach

#Anniversary #Soulmate

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 #Real Friends

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
-- Richard Bach

#Encouraging #Wisdom #Encouragement

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

How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.
-- Richard Bach

#Twenties #Hours #Minutes

Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.
-- Richard Bach

#Love Is #Next #Language

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
-- Richard Bach

#Inspirational #Funny #Witty

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
-- Richard Bach

#Bullying #Kids #Not Caring

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.
-- Richard Bach

#Inspirational #Life #Cute

One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.
-- Richard Bach

#Believe #Way #Inevitable

You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.
-- Richard Bach

#Goal #Purpose #Ongoing

The simplest things are often the truest.
-- Richard Bach

#Simplicity #Environment #Minimalism

I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.
-- Richard Bach

#Marriage #Hope #World

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.
-- Richard Bach

#Responsibility #Faults #Victim

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

#Life #Persons #Worth It

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
-- Richard Bach

#Happiness #Spiritual #Sacrifice

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
-- Richard Bach

#Being Strong #Believe #Winning

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
-- Richard Bach

#Happiness #Spiritual #Wisdom

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
-- Richard Bach

#Love #Friendship #I Miss You

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
-- Richard Bach

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Success

The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.
-- Richard Bach

#Dream #Compromise

The gull sees farthest who flies highest
-- Richard Bach

#Achievement #Vision #Gulls

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.
-- Richard Bach

#Fear #Loss #Annoyed

Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.
-- Richard Bach

#Thinking #Reality #Perspective

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

Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.
-- Richard Bach

#Reality #World #Moments

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.
-- Richard Bach

#Team #Skills #Discipline

Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.
-- Richard Bach

#Dream #Miracle #Lovely

Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?
-- Richard Bach

#World #Limits #Murder

nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.
-- Richard Bach

#Mean #Thinking #Choices

Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite life, choosing its playground; protect that the world you know exists with your consent and for your own good reasons; protect that your purpose and mission is to shine love in your own playful way, in the moments you decide will be most dramatic.
-- Richard Bach

#Wall #Winning #Shining

How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.
-- Richard Bach

#Trouble #Easy #Compassionate

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?
-- Richard Bach

#Hypocrisy #Tree #World

It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.
-- Richard Bach

#World #Quitting

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.
-- Richard Bach

#Years #Rewards

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
-- Richard Bach

#Misunderstood #Devil #Being Misunderstood

At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.
-- Richard Bach

#Past #Simple #Men

If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it’s condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don’t have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.
-- Richard Bach

#Expression #Perfect #Body

Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.
-- Richard Bach

#Destiny #Want

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?
-- Richard Bach

#Self #Anorexia #Eating Disorder

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.
-- Richard Bach

#Kids #Air #Feelings

Learning is finding out what you already know.
-- Richard Bach

#Education #Findings

You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.
-- Richard Bach

#Real #Mean #Practice

We design our lives through the power of choices.
-- Richard Bach

#Choices #Design #Power Of Choice

Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.
-- Richard Bach

#Adventure #Long #Moments

Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don't have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.
-- Richard Bach

#People #Quality #Crowds

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

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.
-- Richard Bach

#Love #Life #Happiness

I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it’s not finished yet.
-- Richard Bach

#Way #Findings

Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
-- Richard Bach

#Beauty #Limits #Sin

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.
-- Richard Bach

#Gratitude #Problem

Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.
-- Richard Bach

#Change #Stars #Finding Yourself

One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.
-- Richard Bach

#Thinking #Law Of Attraction #Cosmic

We can start working with time if you wish," Chiang said, "till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to begin to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love.
-- Richard Bach

#Fun #Powerful #Kindness

It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned - when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse.
-- Richard Bach

#Writing #Thinking #Typewriters

Reality is divinely indifferent.
-- Richard Bach

#Reality #Indifferent

We look at some people as if they were special, gifted, divine. Nobody is special and gifted and divine. No more than you are, no more than I am. The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it.
-- Richard Bach

#Practice #Differences #People

If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'
-- Richard Bach

#Believe #Mirrors #People

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.
-- Richard Bach

#Morning #Sea #Gold

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

#Life #Matter #Easy

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!
-- Richard Bach

#Fighting #Ideas #Gone

Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.
-- Richard Bach

#Dream #Gratitude #Yesterday

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
-- Richard Bach

#Inspirational #Life #Self Esteem

Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.
-- Richard Bach

#Suicide #Suicidal #Starting Over

Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.
-- Richard Bach

#Thinking #Winning #Battle

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.
-- Richard Bach

#Children #Parent #Parents Love

Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.
-- Richard Bach

#Emotion #Reason #Convince

Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
-- Richard Bach

#Soulmate #Two #Together

I think there's an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. It's a lovely sight, watching it work.
-- Richard Bach

#Believe #Thinking #Sight

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.
-- Richard Bach

#Love #Fear #Lying

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.
-- Richard Bach

#Practice

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
-- Richard Bach

#Flying #Matter #Gulls

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.
-- Richard Bach

#Weight #Next #Overcoming

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
-- Richard Bach

#Inspirational #Success #Knowing

Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.
-- Richard Bach

#Space #Overcoming #Seagull

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".
-- Richard Bach

#Inspirational #Being Yourself #Unique

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
-- Richard Bach

#Ignorance #Skills #Excellence

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.
-- Richard Bach

#Inspirational #Lying #Slavery

Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.
-- Richard Bach

#Inspirational #Bird #Flying

Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.
-- Richard Bach

#Body #Break #Chains

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.
-- Richard Bach

#Believe #Self Respect #Answers

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 #Sky