Richard Bach's Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

True love stories never have endings.

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

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.

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

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

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

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

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

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

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.