Richard David Bach is an American writer widely known as the author of some of the 1970s’ biggest sellers, including Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. Profoundly inspirational Richard Bach quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.
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Famous Richard Bach Quotes
True love stories never have endings. Richard Bach
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? Richard Bach
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours. Richard Bach
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. Richard Bach
You teach best what you most need to learn. Richard Bach
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. Richard Bach
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. Richard Bach
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. Richard Bach
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. Richard Bach
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 will see the way to fly. Richard Bach
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there. Richard Bach
You’re never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. Richard Bach
One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we’ve been wishing to lead ourselves. Richard Bach
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
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? Richard Bach
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. 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
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t. Richard Bach
Don’t be dismayed at 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
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. Richard Bach
I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. Richard Bach
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. Richard Bach
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. Richard Bach
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. Richard Bach
The simplest things are often the truest. Richard Bach
You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there. Richard Bach
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
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god. Richard Bach
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. Richard Bach
That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning. Richard Bach
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. Richard Bach
Boredom between two people doesn’t come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually. Richard Bach
Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true. Richard Bach
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished If you´re alive it isn’t. Richard Bach
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. Richard Bach
You’re always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. Richard Bach
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were. Richard Bach
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
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. Richard Bach
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
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
Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us.Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us. Richard Bach
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. Richard Bach
A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow. Richard Bach
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. Richard Bach
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. Richard Bach
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
Listen, he said. It’s important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do. Richard Bach
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. Richard Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. Richard Bach
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
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
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. Richard Bach
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
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! Richard Bach
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. Richard Bach
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach
He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all. Richard Bach
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
It must happen to us all. We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know. Richard Bach
Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true. Richard Bach
If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we’ve destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don’t you think that we might see each other once or twice? Richard Bach
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. Richard Bach
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
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. Richard Bach
Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there. Richard Bach
Avoid problems, and you’ll never be the one who overcame them. Richard Bach
In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy choice. Richard Bach
Same with anyone who’s been flying for years and loves it still we’re part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we’re one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind! Richard Bach
Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you’re a master, and you are. Richard Bach
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
Look in the mirror and one thing is sure what we see is not who we are. Richard Bach
Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is reality. That is the truth. What we make of it is up to us, as the painting of the sunrise is up to the artist. In our world humanity has strayed from that love. It lives hatred and power struggles and manipulations of the earth itself for its own narrow reasons. Continue and no one will see the sunrise. The sunrise will always exist, of course, but people on earth will know nothing of it and finally even stories of its beauty will fade from our knowing. Richard Bach
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
Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world even if what is published is not true. Richard Bach
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
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them. You’re always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. Richard Bach
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. Richard Bach
Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. Richard Bach
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. Richard Bach
To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. Richard Bach
Learning is finding out what you already know. Richard Bach
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
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. Richard Bach
Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work. Richard Bach
You don’t want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. Richard Bach
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
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. Richard Bach
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
Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them. Richard Bach
One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin. Richard Bach
I’ve owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we’ve had long conversations in flight. There’s a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight. Richard Bach
When we put up with any situation we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself. Richard Bach
Civilization wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. Richard Bach
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. Richard Bach
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection. Richard Bach
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
In order to win, you must expect to win. Richard Bach
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
Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven’t learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn’t learned to add or multiply, at least the first time. Richard Bach
Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it. Richard Bach
Get this in mind early We never grow up. Richard Bach
How easy it is to be compassionate when it’s yourself you see in trouble. Richard Bach
