Richard Bach Quotes

Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.

~ 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

We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.

~ 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

What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.

~ 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

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

~ 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

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

~ Richard Bach

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

~ 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

True love stories never have endings.

~ Richard Bach

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

~ 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

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

~ Richard Bach

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

~ Richard Bach

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

~ Richard Bach

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

~ Richard Bach

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

~ Richard Bach

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

~ Richard Bach

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

~ 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

You teach best what you most need to learn.

~ Richard Bach

Learning is finding out what you already know.

~ Richard Bach

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.

~ Richard Bach

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

~ Richard Bach

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

~ Richard Bach

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

~ 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