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Quotes by Richard Bach


Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
– Richard Bach
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
– Richard Bach
An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
– Richard Bach
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
– Richard Bach
Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
– Richard Bach
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
– Richard Bach
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
– Richard Bach
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.
– Richard Bach
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.
– Richard Bach
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
– Richard Bach
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
– Richard Bach
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
– Richard Bach
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
– Richard Bach
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
– Richard Bach
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
– Richard Bach
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
– Richard Bach
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
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
– Richard Bach
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
– Richard Bach
In order to win, you must expect to win.
– Richard Bach
In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
– Richard Bach
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
– Richard Bach
Learning is finding out what you already know.
– Richard Bach
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
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
– Richard Bach
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
– Richard Bach
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
– Richard Bach
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
– Richard Bach
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
– Richard Bach
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.
– Richard Bach
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
– Richard Bach
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
– Richard Bach
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.
– Richard Bach
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
– Richard Bach
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
You teach best what you most need to learn.
– Richard Bach
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.
– Richard Bach
That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
– Richard Bach
True love stories never have endings.
– Richard Bach
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.
– Richard Bach
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
– Richard Bach
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
– Richard Bach