Top 300 Richard Bach Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

104. “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

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

— Richard Bach

106. “One must first learn to fall if one would fly...”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

109. “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

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

— Richard Bach

111. “Get this in mind early: We never grow up.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

113. “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.”

— Richard Bach

114. “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

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

117. “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

118. “Whatever We Hold in Thought Comes True in Our Experience; Like Attracts Like; we experiment with the Law of Changing Appearances, to make our outer world reflect our inner.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

121. “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

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

125. “Hate is love without enough data.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

129. “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

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

132. “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

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

— Richard Bach

134. “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

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

— Richard Bach

136. “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.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

138. “We know nothing until intuition agrees.”

— Richard Bach

139. “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

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

— Richard Bach

141. “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.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

143. “Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don’t have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.”

— Richard Bach

144. “There is something to astrology for those who believe in astrology, as there is something to medicine for those who believe in medicine. Every system works when we give our heart to it.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

146. “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.”

— Richard Bach

147. “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

148. “Do you ever have the feeling you’re a tourist on earth?”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

150. “We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we’ve made choices by default, when we haven’t designed our lives on our own.”

— Richard Bach