Richard Bach Quotes

Enjoy our collection of Richard Bach quotes full of wisdom. Born in 1936, Richard Bach is an American author who has written many excellent books. His words are motivational. Jonathan Livingston Seagull; Illusions; The Bridge Across Forever; to name only a few of his books. His books are ones that have great messages in them! If you have never read one of his books, you should! He is one of our favorite authors. Read s review of his books, Messiah's Handbook. and his book, one.

Be inspired by the wisdom said by Richard Bach:
"Bad things are not the worst thing that can happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us." Richard Bach

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

"In order to win, you must expect to win." Richard Bach

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

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

"An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's learning that matters what we've learned and how we've grown."
Richard Bach

"We design our lives through the power of choices." Richard Bach

"We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture." Richard Bach

"How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?" Richard Bach

"Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it." Richard Bach

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't." Richard Bach

"You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past." Richard Bach

"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." Richard Bach

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

"But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.." Richard Bach

"For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating.For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight." 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

"No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it." Richard Bach

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



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more of Richard Bach wisdom:
"In order to win, you must expect to win."
Richard Bach

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

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

"A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees form the world around us."
Richard Bach

"...there is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside."
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 awhile, and watch your answers change."
Richard Bach

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

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

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

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

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

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."
Richard Bach

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."
Richard Bach

"Don't be dismayed at 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

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

"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."
Richard Bach

"Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers."
Richard Bach

"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."
Richard Bach

"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."
Richard Bach

"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."
Richard Bach

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

"The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly.
Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly."
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

"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."
Richard Bach

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

"Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice 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 your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem."
Richard Bach

"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear."
Richard Bach

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

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly."
Richard Bach

"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."
Richard Bach

"Learning is finding out what you already know."
Richard Bach

"We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks."
Richard Bach

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The gull sees farthest who flies highest."
Richard Bach

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

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