Quotes from Richard Bach

One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.

Every problem in your life carries a gift inside it.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

You are led, when you share your loves, to an enchanted life of inner happiness, which unsharing others cannot know.

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Do you think, if you say the word "impossible" enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?

It doesn't take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn't take long to drop it, does it?

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

I know there's a principle of spirit. It works without space-time. I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief of body. Learn how spirit works, a few simple rules, living a perfect spiritual life is easy.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.

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

Heaven isnot a place, and it isnot atime.Heaven isbeing perfect.

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

The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.

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

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

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.

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.

The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

There is something that is transcendental about when we are immersed in that which we most love.