Top 300 Richard Bach Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “I don’t think creativity is mine to maintain. It automatically comes when we declare that “I am an expression of life, and life will express itself through me in the most playful and wonderful of ways, if I let it.””

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

107. “An easy life doesn’t teach us anything. In the end it’s the learning that matters: what we’ve learned and how we’ve grown.”

— Richard Bach

108. “Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.”

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109. “If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.”

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

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111. “Hate is love without enough data.”

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

— Richard Bach

113. “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.”

— Richard Bach

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

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

— Richard Bach

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

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117. “Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.”

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118. “By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become.”

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119. “Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning’s cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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121. “Whatever it is that calls us, that’s our path. And as we walk that path, we have a chance to shine forth who we are. It affects other people around us.”

— Richard Bach

122. “One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.”

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123. “The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed.”

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124. “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.”

— Richard Bach

125. “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.”

— Richard Bach

126. “To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance.”

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127. “Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you’re a master, and you are.”

— Richard Bach

128. “No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.”

— Richard Bach

129. “You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.”

— Richard Bach

130. “Build an inner place to protect your truth.”

— Richard Bach

131. “The simplest things are often the truest.”

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

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133. “Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.”

— Richard Bach

134. “We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.”

— Richard Bach

135. “The only true law is that which leads to freedom,” Jonathan said. “There is no other.”

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136. “What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.”

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137. “Are you saying I can fly?” “I say you are free.”

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138. “Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.”

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139. “Before you’ll change, something important must be at risk.”

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140. “The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.”

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141. “There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.”

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142. “Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight – how to get from shore to food and back again.”

— Richard Bach

143. “Anybody who’s ever mattered, anybody who’s ever been happy, anybody who’s ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.”

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

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145. “The image is a dream. The beauty is real.”

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146. “Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take ’em on.”

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147. “We know nothing until intuition agrees.”

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148. “Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.”

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149. “When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.”

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150. “If you’re always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?”

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