Richard Bach > Quotes

“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”
― 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

“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, Illusions

“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

“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions

“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

“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, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions

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

“Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.”
― Richard Bach

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions

“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, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. ”
― Richard Bach, Illusions

“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“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

“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, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“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, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“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, Illusions

“Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.”
― Richard Bach, One

“When you have come to the edge of all the light you have
And step into the darkness of the unknown
Believe that one of the two will happen to you
Either you'll find something solid to stand on
Or you'll be taught how to fly!”
― Richard Bach

“Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.”
― Richard Bach, One

“Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you´re alive it isn't.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“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, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“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, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit

“You're always free to change your mind
and choose a different future, or a different past.”
― Richard Bach

“We teach best what we most need to learn.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions

“Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy choice.”
― Richard Bach

“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”
― Richard Bach, One

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

“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, Illusions

“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“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, One

“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teach is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. ”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.”
― Richard Bach, One

“I had grown up in a house with a fence around it, and in this fence was a white smooth wooden gate, two holes bored round and low together so the dog could see through. One night, the moon high, late for me home from the school dance, I remember that I stopped, hand on the gate, and spoke so quietly to myself and to the woman that I would love that not even the dog could have heard.

I don’t know where you are, but you’re living right now, somewhere on this earth. And one day you and I are going to touch this gate where I’m touching it now. Your hand will touch this very wood, here! Then we’ll walk through and we’ll be full of a future and of a past and we’ll be to each other like no one else has ever been. We can’t meet now, I don’t know why. But some day our questions will be answers and we’ll be caught in something so bright...and every step I take is one step closer on a bridge we must cross to meet.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.”
― Richard Bach, One

“Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.”
― 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

“True love stories never have endings.”
― Richard Bach

“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.”
― 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, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions

“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, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story