Richard Bach Quotes

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?

Don't fear change. It's always for the best.

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

We design our lives through the power of choices.

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

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.

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?

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

There is something to astrology for those who believe in astrology, as there is something to medicine for those who believe in medicine. Every system works when we give our heart to it.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.

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

It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?

Whatever it is that calls us, that's our path. And as we walk that path, we have a chance to shine forth who we are. It affects other people around us.

The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?

Reality is divinely indifferent.

I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.

Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

Build an inner place to protect your truth.

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.

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

I think there's an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. It's a lovely sight, watching it work.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.

Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.

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

To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it, no matter what; and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime.

Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

Whatever We Hold in Thought Comes True in Our Experience; Like Attracts Like; we experiment with the Law of Changing Appearances, to make our outer world reflect our inner.

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

An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

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.

Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."