Richard Bach Quotes (150 Quotes)

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

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

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

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

What was the question ... Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas Answer sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the answer. If you haven't already, I'd suggest you want to find your soulmate, as soon as you can. Next question'

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

The simplest things are often the truest.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

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.

Real love stories never have endings.

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

If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.

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.

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

True love stories never have endings.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

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

For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices It took a second to settle down I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool.

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

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.

Everything in this book may be wrong. The Savior's Manual

If we change in different directions, then we don't have any future anyway, do we I think it's possible for two people to change together, to grow together and enrich instead of diminish each other. The sum of one and one, if they're the right ones, can be infinity But so often one person drags the other down one person wants to go up like a balloon and the other's a dead weight. I've always wondered what it would be like if both people, if a woman and a man both wanted to go up like balloons.

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

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

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

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.

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

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

Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly

Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price

She didn't mean to be sexy that moment, but even a winter nightgown couldn't hide that lovely outline. When will I outgrow my simple-minded fascination with the form she had happened to choose for her body Never, I thought.

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.

Other people think they know what you are glamour, sex, money, power, love. It may be a press agent dream which has nothing to do with you, maybe it's something you don't even like, but that's what they think you are. People rush at you from all sides, they think they're going to get these things if they touch you. It's scary, so you build walls around yourself, thick glass walls while you're trying to think, trying to catch your breath. You know who you are inside, but people outside see something different. You can choose to become the image, and let go of who you are, or continue as you are and feel phony when you play the image.

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

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

Look in a mirror and one thing's sure what we see is not who we are.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.

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

Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. Its only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings.

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.

Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.

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.

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

The way to avoid responsibility is to say, I've got responsibilities.

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