Richard Bach Quotes

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

We teach best what we most need to learn.

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

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

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

When you have come to the edge of all the light you have
And step into the darkness of the unknown
Believe that one of the two will happen to you
Either you'll find something solid to stand on
Or you'll be taught how to fly!

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

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

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.

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

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.