Top 300 Richard Bach Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “The world’s crazy, when it comes to beauty.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

303. “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

304. “Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.”

— Richard Bach

305. “Good-bye, Jon, my friend.” “Good-bye, Sully. We’ll meet again.” And with that, Jonathan held in thought an image of the great gull-flocks on the shore of another time, and he knew with practiced ease that he was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.”

— Richard Bach

306. “Rebuilding us. Isn’t that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.”

— Richard Bach

307. “For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do...”

— Richard Bach

308. “We can start working with time, if you wish, till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to BEGIN to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love.”

— Richard Bach

309. “I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.”

— Richard Bach

310. “Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her.”

— Richard Bach

311. “I didn’t see how that applied to me, and reminded myself never to let a book replace my own thinking.”

— Richard Bach

312. “I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.”

— Richard Bach

313. “The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?”

— Richard Bach

314. “Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!”

— Richard Bach

315. “And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot’s own.”

— Richard Bach

316. “What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication.”

— Richard Bach

317. “Family is not necessarily made of blood, but of those you meet along the way.”

— Richard Bach

318. “There is a sense of oneness that from time to time I’m aware of in my life. Certainly not all the time, and there are times when I get frightened and when I get upset. But at the best of times, it’s a personal oneness.”

— Richard Bach

319. “It’s OK if the world is destroyed,” he said. “There are a thousand million other worlds for us to create and choose from. As long as people want planets, there will be planets to live on.”

— Richard Bach

320. “The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it.”

— Richard Bach

321. “Until he found that bird, life would remain gray and bleak, illogical, without purpose; every seagull would remain a coincidental collection of blood and feathers pointed toward oblivion.”

— Richard Bach

322. “This disaster is the chance you prayed for, your wish come true.”

— Richard Bach

323. “All of us are called by something in this world that attracts us. And it doesn’t matter what it is – you can be an engine mechanic or an aviator or you can be someone who loves their flower garden or the world of commerce or sailboats.”

— Richard Bach

324. “Life is the unknown and the unknowable, except that we are put into this world to eat, to stay alive as lone as we possibly can.”

— Richard Bach

325. “Everything in this book may be wrong.”

— Richard Bach

326. “We reviewed the ways we had to bring customers: Method A, flying aerobatics at the edge of town. Method B, the parachute jump. Then we began experimenting with Method C. There is a principle that says if you lay out a lonely solitaire game in the center of the wilderness, someone will soon come along to look over your shoulder and tell you how to play your cards. This was the principle of Method C. We unrolled our sleeping bags and stretched out under the wing, completely uncaring.”

— Richard Bach

327. “Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.”

— Richard Bach

328. “In the days that followed, Jonathan saw that there was as much to learn about flight in this place as there had been in the life behind him. But with a difference. Here were gulls who thought as he thought. For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do, and that was to fly. They were magnificent birds, all of them, and they spent hour after hour every day practicing flight, testing advanced aeronautics.”

— Richard Bach

329. “We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.”

— Richard Bach

330. “Fail at love, and the other tests don’t matter.”

— Richard Bach

331. “Stand to Center meant only great shame or great honor.”

— Richard Bach

332. “I want to go back to the Flock, of course. I’ve barely begun with the new group!”

— Richard Bach

333. “Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.”

— Richard Bach

334. “Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.”

— Richard Bach

335. “Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, “I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy.””

— Richard Bach

336. “Those who fly the highest see the furthest.”

— Richard Bach

337. “Look with the help of understanding, explore that what you already know...”

— Richard Bach