Richard Bach
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.Collection: Relationship
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.Collection: Truth
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.Collection: Work
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.Collection: Inspirational
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.Collection: Fear
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.Collection: Imagination
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.Collection: Power
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.Collection: Great
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.Collection: Happiness
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.Collection: Life
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.Collection: Best
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.Collection: Love
Learning is finding out what you already know.Collection: Learning
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.Collection: Home
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.Collection: Happiness
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.Collection: Future
True love stories never have endings.Collection: Romantic
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?Collection: Love
You teach best what you most need to learn.Collection: Best
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.Collection: Family
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.Collection: Learning
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.Collection: Happiness
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.Collection: Life
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.Collection: Nature
Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.
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.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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.
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.
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.
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
In order to win, you must expect to win.
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
I know there's a principle of spirit. It works without space-time. I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief of body. Learn how spirit works, a few simple rules, living a perfect spiritual life is easy.
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.
Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
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.