Richard Bach Quotes

I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.

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

Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.

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

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.

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.

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

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

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

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.

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

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

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 a butterfly.

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.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?