Richard Bach Quotes

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

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.

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

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!

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

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

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

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

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

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

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.

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

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

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

Avoid problems, and you’ll never be the one who overcame them.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

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

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I’ve spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

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.

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.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

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

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.