Richard Bach Quotes

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so...

You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t...

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the...

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

A moment later Jonathan’s body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. “Don’t l...

We reviewed the ways we had to bring customers: Method A, flying aerobatics at the edge of town. Met...

Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things l...

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.

Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promise...

Like attracts like. It'll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, ...

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine ...

Whatever harm I would do to another, I shall do first to myself.As I respect and am kind to myself, ...

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy

Can miles truly separate you from friends. ... If you want to be with someone you love aren't you a...

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

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work...

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

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves no matter how unpleasant are necessary i...

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it.

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

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

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because y...

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

True love stories never have endings.

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best ser...

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

What the caterpillar calls a tragedy the Master calls a butterfly.

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

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

Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, ...

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

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choo...

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

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

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpilla...

You teach best what you most need to learn.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to ...

I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather b...

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary i...

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's lif...

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you alr...

What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understand...

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

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way abo...

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

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

What matters most:"What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the...

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply l...

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

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you...

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary i...

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

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's lif...

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

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is ...

If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you jus...

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again...

I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you...

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've gotresponsibilities.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are ...

Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into...

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

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's lif...

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you ...

But one creature said at last, "I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust...

if you argue for your limitations they are yours

We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.