Quotes from Richard Bach

Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship.

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

I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.

You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'

Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life.

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

Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

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

I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love.

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.

The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.

I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

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