Richard Bach Quotes

The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.

The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

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

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

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

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

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.

Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.

Perspective - Use It or Lose It.

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?

There's so much to learn! And just when we think, "I've got it. I really understand what's going on," we're shown a whole new stage set on which to play.

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.

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.

The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.

Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however.

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

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

That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.

Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.

I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

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

I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love.

You seek problems because you need their gifts.

We know nothing until intuition agrees.

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?

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

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

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

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

I think there's an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. It's a lovely sight, watching it work.