Top 100 Richard Bach Quotes
#1. I have chosen to parody the writing styles of Carlos Castaneda, James Redfield, Richard Bach, Lynn Andrews, and several other best-selling new age authors.
Frederick Lenz
#2. Every problem has a gift for you in its hands as my man Richard Bach says. You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera.
Jon Gordon
#3. And Richard Bach said, 'A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.
Mia Storm
#4. You teach best what you most need to learn. - RICHARD BACH, ILLUSIONS: THE ADVENTURES OF A RELUCTANT MESSIAH
Lisa B. Marshall
#5. Dan wanted me to stay. I wanted Elf to stay. Everyone in the whole world was fighting with somebody to stay. When Richard Bach wrote "If you love someone, set them free" he can't have been directing his advice at human beings.
Miriam Toews
#6. choice in every moment. Where will I place my attention? What do I hold sacred? Whom can I love right now? -Fred Small We design our lives through the power of choices. -Richard Bach
Dr. Michelle Dawson
#7. Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.
Richard Bach
#8. I want to go back to the Flock, of course. I've barely begun with the new group!
Richard Bach
#9. You're a perfect expression of perfect Love, perfect Life, here and now.
Richard Bach
#10. The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.
Richard Bach
#11. Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.
Richard Bach
#12. In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
Richard Bach
#13. You're a master when things go well, you're a victim when they go out of control.
Richard Bach
#14. Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and
follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life? For a thousand
years we have scrabbled after fish heads, but now we have a
reason to live - to learn, to discover, to be free!
Richard Bach
#16. Once we visit death, once we see the beauty waiting for us, our fear's gone. Used to be never a book written, of our experience with dying. Now there are shelves, waiting to be read. The beliefs, the experiences of so many others, now.
Richard Bach
#17. It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.
Richard Bach
#18. 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
#19. Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so.
Richard Bach
#20. The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.
Richard Bach
#21. Time means nothing.Time is just the way we measure the gaps between not knowing something and knowing it or not doing something and doing it.
Richard Bach
#22. We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.
Richard Bach
#23. Are you saying I can fly?" "I say you are free.
Richard Bach
#24. So this world, I think, and an indefinite number of other worlds of our creation, are also - we're here for fun; we're here for learning; we're here for remembering who we are, and who we are, are expressions of life so absolutely linked with the life that is, always was, always will be.
Richard Bach
#25. Can miles truly separate us from friends? If you want to be with Rae, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach
#26. You gave your life to become the person you are right now Was it worth it?
Richard Bach
#27. How is it we're the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?
Richard Bach
#28. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.
Richard Bach
#29. Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.
Richard Bach
#30. Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.
Richard Bach
#31. I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten
Richard Bach
#32. I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
Richard Bach
#33. Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Richard Bach
#34. Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!
Richard Bach
#36. 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
#37. As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.
Richard Bach
#38. The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?
Richard Bach
#39. I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die.
Richard Bach
#40. You're master of what you've lived,
artisan at what you're living,
amateur at what's next to live.
Richard Bach
#41. The best we can do is live our highest right, gracefully as we can, and let the Principle of Coincidence take it from there. Seven
Richard Bach
#42. You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.
Richard Bach
#43. Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.
Richard Bach
#44. Next to 'God', 'love' is the word most mangled in every language.
Richard Bach
#45. What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.
Richard Bach
#46. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
Richard Bach
#47. The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable.
Richard Bach
#48. With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es."
Richard Bach
#49. True enjoy stories never ever have endings.
Richard Bach
#50. 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
#51. His one sorrow was not solitude, it was that other gulls refused to believe the glory of flight that awaited them; they refused to open their eyes and see.
Richard Bach
#53. Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.
Richard Bach
#54. Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.
Richard Bach
#55. Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.
Richard Bach
#56. 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
#57. Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard Bach
#58. 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.
Richard Bach
#59. Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.
Richard Bach
#60. This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
#61. One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.
Richard Bach
#62. Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.
Richard Bach
#63. The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves.
Richard Bach
#64. The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.
Richard Bach
#65. Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
Richard Bach
#66. You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.
Richard Bach
#67. 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.
Richard Bach
#68. Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.
Richard Bach
#69. You're always free to change your mind
and choose a different future, or a different past.
Richard Bach
#70. 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.
Richard Bach
#71. Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.
Richard Bach
#72. Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. It's only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings.
Richard Bach
#73. 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
#74. We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.
Richard Bach
#75. 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
#76. Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?
Richard Bach
#77. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.
Richard Bach
#78. There was part of me listening that didn't think what I said was fiction. I was making up a true story.
Richard Bach
#79. The way to tell if your job is done: if you're alive, you've got a job.
Richard Bach
#80. How many of us count fictional characters, or those we've never met, among our closest friends? My hand's up.
Richard Bach
#81. You're never given a dream without the power to make it true.
Richard Bach
#82. Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them,
Richard Bach
#83. You teach best that which you need most to learn.
Richard Bach
#84. How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.
Richard Bach
#85. I didn't crash anything! They said I hit the wires, Don! I didn't see them!" "That explains it. You're a master when things go well, you're a victim when they go out of control." He was laughing at me.
Richard Bach
#86. I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.
Richard Bach
#88. You are never given a wish without what it takes to make it true.
Richard Bach
#89. Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.
Richard Bach
#90. Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach
#91. 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
#92. Everybody is given a Dream ... you may have to work for it however ...
Richard Bach
#93. She didn't mean to be sexy that moment, but even a winter nightgown couldn't hide that lovely outline. When will I outgrow my simple-minded fascination with the form she had happened to choose for her body? Never, I thought
Richard Bach
#94. You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.
Richard Bach
#95. Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.
Richard Bach
#96. 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
#97. If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?
Richard Bach
#98. The worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves. we live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we are afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we will lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.
Richard Bach
#99. Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.
Richard Bach
#100. 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
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