The way to avoid responsibility is to say, “I’ve got responsibilities.”
—Richard Bach
Topics: Responsibility
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
Topics: Last Words
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Happiness
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Travel, Work, Motivation, Tourism
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
Topics: Perfection
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Choices
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 colours from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Questions, Questioning
If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we’ve destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don’t you think that we might see each other once or twice?
—Richard Bach
Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn’t make sense right away.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Learning
We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we’ve created ourselves? Who’s to blame, who’s to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?
—Richard Bach
When we come to the last moment of this lifetime, and we look back across it, the only thing that’s going to matter is “What was the quality of our love?”
—Richard Bach
Topics: Love
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them. You’re always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
—Richard Bach
An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Ideas
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
Topics: Questions, Self-Discovery
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.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Unhappiness
My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
—Richard Bach
Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Friends and Friendship
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.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Truth, Obligation, Self Respect
Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Civilization
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 tht moment.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Decisions
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
—Richard Bach
Topics: One liners, Fear, Desires, Desire
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
Topics: Dreams, Effort
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.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Choice
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
Topics: Luck
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
Topics: Learning, Mistakes, Failures
If you love something, set it free; if it comes back it’s yours, if it doesn’t, it never was.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Freedom, Love
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Belief, Attitude, Winning, Win, Think
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Language, Gift
Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Purpose, Vision, Life
To fly as fast as thought. To be Anywhere there is; you must first begin by knowing that you have already arrived
—Richard Bach
Topics: Now, Win, Thought
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