Quotes from Richard Bach

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

Two words: Love leads. Listen to that ring of love within. If we follow that leading of love we'll be guaranteed an adventurous, positive, joyful life.

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're never given a dream without the power to make it true.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

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.'

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.

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.

Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.

The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

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.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.

Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?

If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.