Inspirational Quotes by Richard Bach (American Novelist)

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

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

True love stories never have endings.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Marriage, Love

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Vision, Purpose, Life

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

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Problem-solving, Problems, Gift

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

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

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: Desires, Desire, Fear, One liners

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

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

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: Faith, Ignorance, Defects, Justice, Belief, Master, Tragedy

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

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
—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
Topics: Questions, Self-Discovery

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster
—Richard Bach
Topics: Blessings

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Winning, Think, Attitude, Win, Belief

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, Failures, Mistakes

In order to win, you must expect to win.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Expectation

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

We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests, enchanting deer and butterflies with her smile.What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure …not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth!Our century, they’ve changed clothes, of course. Dragons wear government-costumes, today, and failure-suits and disaster-outfits. Society’s demons screech, whirl down on us should we lift our eyes from the ground, dare we turn right at corners we’ve been told to turn left. So crafty have appearances become that princesses and knights can be hidden from each other, can be hidden from themselves.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Imagination

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Health, General

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Happiness

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Possibilities, Imitation, Worry, Work, Confidence, Potential, General

What the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Opportunity, Adversity, Difficulties

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Enjoyment, Time

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

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

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Family

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

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: Effort, Dreams

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: Questioning, Questions

Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?
—Richard Bach
Topics: Love

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

Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.
—Richard Bach
Topics: Truth

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

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

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, “you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.”
—Richard Bach
Topics: Imagination

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

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