Top 300 Richard Bach Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don’t think. Don’t care.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

54. “Pain and adversity are powerful vehicles to promote personal growth. Nothing helps you learn, grow, and evolve more quickly. Nothing offers you as big an opportunity to reclaim more of your authentic power as a person.”

— Richard Bach

55. “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.”

— Richard Bach

56. “Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”

— Richard Bach

57. “I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.”

— Richard Bach

58. “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.”

— Richard Bach

59. “Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.”

— Richard Bach

60. “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.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

63. “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.”

— Richard Bach

64. “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.”

— Richard Bach

65. “We’re the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and love!”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

69. “We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.”

— Richard Bach

70. “You can’t solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don’t want problems solved.”

— Richard Bach

71. “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.”

— Richard Bach

72. “Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.”

— Richard Bach

73. “The gull sees farthest who flies highest.”

— Richard Bach

74. “I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

76. “You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.”

— Richard Bach

77. “If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

79. “Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.”

— Richard Bach

80. “You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”

— Richard Bach

81. “How can we resent the life we’ve created for ourselves? Who’s to blame, who’s to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

83. “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.”

— Richard Bach

84. “Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

86. “That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

90. “In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.”

— Richard Bach

91. “Whatever enchants also guides and protects.”

— Richard Bach

92. “Thought plus belief equals manifestation.”

— Richard Bach

93. “Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn’t have limits.”

— Richard Bach

94. “He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them.”

— Richard Bach

95. “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

96. “As you believe, so it is for you.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

98. “The original sin is to limit the Is. Don’t.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach