Quotes from Richard Bach

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.

Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one.

All the people, all the events in your life are put there for a reason. What you choose to do with them is up to you

Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we're throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.

But one creature said at last, 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.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.

And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand coincidences and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance.

Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.

Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn't agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?

I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.

Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that's all right. You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds, remember.

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

You gave your life to become the person you are right now Was it worth it?

I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it's not finished yet.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.

Real love stories never have endings.

You are never given a wish without what it takes to make it true.

Keep working on love.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

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.