Richard Bach Quotes

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

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
- Richard Bach

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
- Richard Bach

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.
- Richard Bach

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
- Richard Bach

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished – If you’re alive it isn’t.
- Richard Bach

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.
- Richard Bach

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture.
- Richard Bach

Mine's a free life, but it does get lonely sometimes.
- Richard Bach

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
- Richard Bach

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
- Richard Bach

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.
- Richard Bach

The dozen gulls by the shoreline came to meet him, none saying a word. He felt only that he was welcome and that this was home. It had been a big day for him, a day whose sunrise he no longer remembered.
- Richard Bach

For Leslie who taught me to fly.
- Richard Bach

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.
- Richard Bach

There was part of me listening that didn’t think what I said was fiction. I was making up a true story.
- Richard Bach

Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.
- Richard Bach

Because fear is ugly and joy is beautiful, simple as that? Maybe so. Nothing so pretty as vanished fear.
- Richard Bach

Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.
- Richard Bach

Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.
- Richard Bach