Quotes from Richard Bach

Don't be dismayed at 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.

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

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

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

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

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.

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

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

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

We teach best what we most need to learn.

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

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.

That's why love stories don't have endings! They don't have endings because love doesn't end.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

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

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.

Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.

When you have come to the edge of all the light you have And step into the darkness of the unknown Believe that one of the two will happen to you Either you'll find something solid to stand on Or you'll be taught how to fly!

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

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

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.

Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?

We design our lives through the power of choices.