Richard Bach

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

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

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
– Richard Bach

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
– Richard Bach

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

You teach best what you most need to learn.
– Richard Bach

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

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.
– Richard Bach

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
– Richard Bach

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put
aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.
– Richard Bach

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
– Richard Bach

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that
is your real self. Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have
anything to learn from them.
– Richard Bach

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.
– Richard Bach

As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming, instead of being. Beyond time,
we’re all one.
– Richard Bach

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have
to work for it, however.
– Richard Bach

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will
know you in a thousand years.
– Richard Bach

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s
life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
– Richard Bach

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
– Richard Bach

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

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we
feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and
honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be.
Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that
one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest
longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up,
chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
– Richard Bach

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being
sure they’ll work.
– Richard Bach

It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem… Somebody hands you a
rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?
– Richard Bach

The gull sees farthest who flies highest.
– Richard Bach

Boredom between two people doesn’t come from being together physically. It comes from
being apart mentally and spiritually.
– Richard Bach

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
– Richard Bach

“The only true law is that which leads to freedom,” Jonathan said. “There is no other.”
– Richard Bach

Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And
meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
– Richard Bach

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a
disaster.
– 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

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and
intelligence and skill.
– Richard Bach

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

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.
– Richard Bach

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.
– Richard Bach

An easy life doesn’t teach us anything. In the end it’s the learning that matters – what we’ve
learned and how we’ve grown.
– Richard Bach

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

True love stories never have endings.
– Richard Bach

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.
– Richard Bach

Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re
the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.
– Richard Bach

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
– Richard Bach

The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.
– Richard Bach

Heaven is not a place, and it’s not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
– Richard Bach

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

Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can
happen to us.
– Richard Bach

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never
were.
– Richard Bach

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.
– Richard Bach

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can
imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
– Richard Bach