Quotes from 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.

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

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.

Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is . . . impossible.

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

There's always some aftermath, good and bad, makes-me-happy or makes-me-unhappy, for anything we choose to do.

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.

Reality is divinely indifferent.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.

Your friends will know you better in the first moment you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a lifetime.

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

I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.

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

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.

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

Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

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

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.

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.

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