Top 427 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Bach

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

True love stories never have endings.

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

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.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

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

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

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

Learning is finding out what you already know.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

I know there's a principle of spirit. It works without space-time. I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief of body. Learn how spirit works, a few simple rules, living a perfect spiritual life is easy.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

The simplest things are often the truest.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

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

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

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

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.

I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

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

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

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.

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

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

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.