48 Quotes by 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.
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
- The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
- 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.
- The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
- The simplest things are often the truest.
- Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
- True love stories never have endings.
- Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
- To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
- What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
- 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.
- You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
- 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.
- You teach best what you most need to learn.
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
- Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
- 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.
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
- Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!
- Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
- 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.
- 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.
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
- Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up.
- Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
- Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
- I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
- If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
- If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
- 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.
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
- In order to win, you must expect to win.
- Learning is finding out what you already know.
- Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
- Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
- You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.
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