Richard Bach Quotes (150 Quotes)


    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.


    Learning is finding out what you already know.

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

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


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

    Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

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

    ... there is such a thing as perfection ... and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....

    Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.

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

    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.

    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.

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

    Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.

    What a story that would make How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp cliches, the same jagged dangers that have threatened us If the idea stands up, I thought, it would be worth uncovering the typewriter How Richard-years-ago would have wanted to know What happens when we set off searching for a soulmate who doesn't exist, and find her.

    The most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which we most loved to do

    The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.


    Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.

    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.

    Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else's list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

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

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

    Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

    The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life find what we most want to do do it, no matter what and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime.

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

    You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

    A name is a label, and as soon as there is a label, the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship and label-bashing, and instead of living by a theme of ideas, people begin dying for labels... and the last thing the world needs is another religion.

    Argue for your limitations and they're yours.

    When you have come to the edge of all the light you have And step into the darkness of the unknown Believe that one of the two will happen to you Either you'll find something solid to stand on Or you'll be taught how to fly

    An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

    Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see out. They move around in smaller boxes, painted different colours, with wheels on the corners. They need this box-culture because each person thinks of herself and himself as locked in a box called a 'body,' arms and legs, fingers to move pencils and tools, languages because they've forgotten how to communicate, eyes because they've forgotten how to see. Odd little planet. Wish you were here. Home soon.

    You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.

    You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.

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

    The idea that we are physical beings descended from primeval cells in nutrient soups, that idea does violence to my intuition, stomps all over it with football-shoes. The idea that we are descended from a jealous God who formed us out of dust to choo

    The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.

    Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

    The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

    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.

    Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. Then be sure of one thingThe Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

    Every word that judges value is circular. 'Good' is 'right' is 'proper' is 'just' is 'good'. But check the examples, and they're not circular at all Every one says 'makes me happy'.

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

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

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

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

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

    Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

    The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty.


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