Richard Bach Quotes

True love stories never have endings.

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

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

Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.

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.

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

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

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

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.

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

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

The gull sees farthest who flies highest

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

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

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".

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.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

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.

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

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.

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

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

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

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

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.

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 only true law is that which leads to freedom.

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

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

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.

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

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'

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.

You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.

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

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

The simplest things are often the truest.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

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

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.

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

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

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