Richard Bach Quotes

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

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'

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.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.

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.

Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life.

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

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

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.

Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

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.

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

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.

Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.

Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.

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.

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.

You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.

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

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.

Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

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.

You wait a lifetime to meet someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that someone, all along, has been you.

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.

Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else.

Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.

Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.

Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship.

One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.

Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.