Top 48 Richard Bach Quotes About Life (LOVE)

Top 10 Most Famous Richard Bach Quotes (BEST)

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they are yours; if they don't they never were. — If you **love** someone, set them free. If they come back they are yours; if they don’t they never were.

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

Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there — Can miles truly separate you from **friends**… If you want to be with someone you **love**, aren’t you already there?

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.

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 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.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — You are always free to **change** your mind and choose a different **future**, or a different past.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.

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

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.

12 Inspirational Richard Bach Quotes About Life

“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

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. — 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.

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

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. — You are never given a **dream** without also being given the power to make it come 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.”
Richard Bach

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

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

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 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.

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. — I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me **happy**.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way. — You have the **freedom** to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.

“If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don’t like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: ‘Hello.'”
Richard Bach

14 Wise Richard Bach Quotes (WISDOM)

“That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.”
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.

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 will see the way to fly.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Your conscience is the measure of the **honesty** of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

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

You teach best what you most need to learn. — You teach best what you most need to **learn**.

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences. — Mistakes – call them unexpected learning experiences.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Ask yourself the secret of your **success**. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

The simplest things are often the truest.

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

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

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.

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

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

12 Richard Bach Quotes About Love and Relationships

“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

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

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.

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

“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.”
Richard Bach

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

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

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. — Rarely do members of the same **family** grow up under the same roof.

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. — I want to be very close to someone I **respect** and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

“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