Top 300 Richard Bach Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it’s not finished yet.”

— Richard Bach

252. “Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.”

— Richard Bach

253. “I’m a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten.”

— Richard Bach

254. “Every real teacher is myself in disguise.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

256. “Everything you’ve said, everything you want to believe is already true. You may not find some of it for a while, and some of it might take longer than that, but that doesn’t stop it from being true this minute!”

— Richard Bach

257. “Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writings a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.”

— Richard Bach

258. “There was a lot I didn’t understand about messiahs.”

— Richard Bach

259. “He’s changing. Every day more remote, protected, distant. He builds fests now for the soulmate he hasn’t found, bricking wall and maze and mountain fortress, dares her to find him at the hidden center of them all Here’s an A in self-protection from the one in the world he might love and who might someday love him.”

— Richard Bach

260. “As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.”

— Richard Bach

261. “I’m fine. Indestructible.”

— Richard Bach

262. “That which most concerns and worries you – your survival – is the only certainty you have.”

— Richard Bach

263. “My way of writing a book is completely disorganized – to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.”

— Richard Bach

264. “It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.”

— Richard Bach

265. “What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

267. “There’s this wonderful and very important event when we’re born, and we forget everything that’s gone before, or else we’d be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn’t operate successfully on this planet.”

— Richard Bach

268. “Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so.”

— Richard Bach

269. “Heaven is not a place, and it’s not a time. Heaven is being perfect.”

— Richard Bach

270. “A person gets used to being alone, but break it just for a day and you have to get used to it again, all over from the beginning.”

— Richard Bach

271. “His vows of a moment before were forgotten, swept away in that great swift wind. Yet he felt guiltless, breaking the promises he had made himself. Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no need of that kind of promise.”

— Richard Bach

272. “The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.”

— Richard Bach

273. “Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.”

— Richard Bach

274. “How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.”

— Richard Bach

275. “In the highest sense, we are all creatures of light. And I have a very difficult time talking with people who are cynical about the world. “The world is no damn good, and we’re all animals,” and that kind of thing. Well, I’m an animal.”

— Richard Bach

276. “I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

278. “How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?”

— Richard Bach

279. “Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...”

— Richard Bach

280. “You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.”

— Richard Bach

281. “Keep working on love.”

— Richard Bach

282. “I’ve learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die.”

— Richard Bach

283. “Are you telling me that even though it’s changing every second, the sky is always a perfect sky?”

— Richard Bach

284. “No, Jonathan, there is no such place. Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.”

— Richard Bach

285. “Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!”

— Richard Bach

286. “Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.”

— Richard Bach

287. “WE THINK, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests, enchanting deer and butterflies with her smile. We think sometimes that ours is an age past frontiers, past adventures. Destiny, it’s way over the horizon; glowing shadows galloped past long ago, and gone. What a pleasure to be wrong.”

— Richard Bach

288. “If we believe that we’re separated from someone, though they stand in the same room with us, we’re separated. If we believe that we’re together, if we believe that they are with us, if we listen through our inner senses, there’s a chance we’ll hear.”

— Richard Bach

289. “I don’t understand how you manage to love a mob of birds that has just tried to kill you.” “Oh, Fletch, you don’t love that! You don’t love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That’s what I mean by love. It’s fun, when you get the knack of it.”

— Richard Bach

290. “A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth. The same rule holds for us now, of course: 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.”

— Richard Bach

291. “How can we resent the life we’ve created for ourselves?”

— Richard Bach

292. “Sooner I’d try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn’t already feel like doing.”

— Richard Bach

293. “Imagination is an old soul.”

— Richard Bach

294. “Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.”

— Richard Bach

295. “For Leslie who taught me to fly.”

— Richard Bach

296. “I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much.”

— Richard Bach

297. “Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?”

— Richard Bach

298. “Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is reality. That is the truth. What we make of it is up to us, as the painting of the sunrise is up to the artist. In our world humanity has strayed from that love. It lives hatred and power struggles and manipulations of the earth itself for its own narrow reasons. Continue and no one will see the sunrise. The sunrise will always exist, of course, but people on earth will know nothing of it and finally even stories of its beauty will fade from our knowing.”

— Richard Bach

299. “The way to tell if your job is done: if you’re alive, you’ve got a job.”

— Richard Bach

300. “Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.”

— Richard Bach