Quotes from Richard Bach

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being.

You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.

One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

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

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

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

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

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

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.

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

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

One way to pick a future is to believe it's inevitable.