Richard Bach quotes

“I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?”

— Richard Bach

“Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!”

— Richard Bach

“Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.”

— Richard Bach

“Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.”

— Richard Bach

“Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.”

— Richard Bach

“In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.”

— Richard Bach

“Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.”

— Richard Bach

“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”

— Richard Bach

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

— Richard Bach

“The simplest things are often the truest.”

— Richard Bach

“Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.”

— Richard Bach

“To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.”

— Richard Bach

“Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.”

— Richard Bach

“Learning is finding out what you already know.”

— Richard Bach

“Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.”

— Richard Bach

“Get this in mind early: We never grow up.”

— Richard Bach

“In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.”

— Richard Bach

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”

— Richard Bach

“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

“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

“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.”

— Richard Bach

“Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.”

— Richard Bach

“In order to win, you must expect to win.”

— Richard Bach

“Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.”

— 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

“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.”

— Richard Bach

“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.”

— Richard Bach