Top 300 Richard Bach Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is,” he said, “you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.” The trick, according to Chiang, was for Jonathan to stop seeing himself as trapped inside a limited body that had a forty-two-inch wingspan and performance that could be plotted on a chart. The trick was to know that his true nature lived, as perfect as an unwritten number, everywhere at once across space and time.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

153. “Sometimes when you say goodbye, that’s the right thing to do in a relationship.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

155. “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?’”

— Richard Bach

156. “If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”

— Richard Bach

157. “I’ll quote the truth wherever I find it thank you.”

— Richard Bach

158. “Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.”

— Richard Bach

159. “He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

161. “Everything in this book may be wrong. – The Savior’s Manual.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

163. “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.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

165. “Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.”

— Richard Bach

166. “Two words: Love leads. Listen to that ring of love within. If we follow that leading of love we’ll be guaranteed an adventurous, positive, joyful life.”

— Richard Bach

167. “I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I’m just soul on a sunbeam.”

— Richard Bach

168. “The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.”

— Richard Bach

169. “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.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

171. “Reality is divinely indifferent.”

— Richard Bach

172. “Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.”

— Richard Bach

173. “Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There’s only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.”

— Richard Bach

174. “Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one – a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers...”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

176. “Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.”

— Richard Bach

177. “An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.”

— Richard Bach

178. “Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

180. “Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You’re going to die a horrible death, remember. It’s all good training, and you’ll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they’ll call you crazy.”

— Richard Bach

181. “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.”

— Richard Bach

182. “The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.”

— Richard Bach

183. “We don’t have rights until we claim them.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

185. “Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being...”

— Richard Bach

186. “Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.”

— Richard Bach

187. “There is something that is transcendental about when we are immersed in that which we most love.”

— Richard Bach

188. “Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull’s life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.”

— Richard Bach

189. “Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?”

— Richard Bach

190. “Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

193. “A drug for everything is madness. Legal or not, prescribed or not, over-counter under-counter bought for blood on street-corners-every pill separates us from knowing our own completion and from being taught by what’s true.”

— Richard Bach

194. “What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?”

— Richard Bach

195. “Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

197. “I don’t think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into.”

— Richard Bach

198. “When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

200. “Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.”

— Richard Bach