Inspirational Quotes by Richard Bach (American Novelist)

Why fly? Simple. I’m not happy unless there’s some room between me and the ground.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Flying

I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I’m just soul on a sunbeam.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Flying

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

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Choices

Fail at love, and the other tests don’t matter.
—Richard Bach

Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Civilization

The way to avoid responsibility is to say, “I’ve got responsibilities.”
—Richard Bach
Topics: Responsibility

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Meaning, General, Purpose, Living

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

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!
—Richard Bach
Topics: Excellence, Freedom

Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn’t make sense right away.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Learning

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
Topics: Birthdays

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Difficulty, Gift, Problems

If you love something, set it free; if it comes back it’s yours, if it doesn’t, it never was.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Love, Freedom

Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Civilization

You teach best what you most need to learn.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Learning, Teachers, One liners, Teaching

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.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Master, Ignorance, Justice, Faith, Defects, Tragedy, Belief

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

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

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

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: Failures, Learning, Mistakes

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
—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
Topics: Learning

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
Topics: Business

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Appropriateness, Success, Aptness

Everything in this book may be wrong. The Savior’s Manual
—Richard Bach
Topics: Reading

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such speed. It feels an impulsion … this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond the horizons.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Potential, General

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

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: Fear, One liners, Desire, Desires

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