Richard Bach Quotes: Richard David Bach is one of the best-selling American authors of all time known for authoring Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions: The Adventures of a reluctant Messiah. Richard was born in Illinois, he attended long beach state college in 1955 and started dreaming to make a career in the aviation industry. He served the United States Navy, New Jersey Air National Guard’s 108th wing, 141st fighter squadron as a Thunderstreak fighter pilot. His literacy career started with the autobiographical book ‘Stranger to the Ground’ and after that came two of the most influential books on motivation written by him. After hours of reading his books and scrolling the Internet, we have jotted down the most inspirational Richard Bach quotes on love, family, illusions, and quotes from jonathan livingston seagull that will help you to spread the wings of your dreams and take a long flight in your life.
Quotes from Jonathan Livingston Seagull
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were. » Richard Bach
Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? » Richard Bach
True love stories never have endings. » Richard Bach
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. » Richard Bach
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. » Richard Bach
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. » Richard Bach
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours. » Richard Bach
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. » Richard Bach
Don’t be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. » Richard Bach
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 will see the way to fly. » Richard Bach
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. » Richard Bach
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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. » Richard Bach
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. » Richard Bach
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. » Richard Bach
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. » Richard Bach
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You’re never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. » Richard Bach
You teach best what you most need to learn. » Richard Bach
I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. » Richard Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. » Richard Bach
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A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. » Richard Bach
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there. » Richard Bach
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. » Richard Bach
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. » Richard Bach
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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. » Richard Bach
You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way » Richard Bach
We teach best what we most need to learn. » Richard Bach
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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 the butterfly. » Richard Bach
The simplest things are often the truest. » Richard Bach
Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place. » Richard Bach
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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. » Richard Bach
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. » Richard Bach
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. » Richard Bach
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. » Richard Bach
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. » Richard Bach
That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end. » Richard Bach
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. » Richard Bach
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! » Richard Bach
Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them. » Richard Bach
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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. » Richard Bach
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. » Richard Bach
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. » Richard Bach
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Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god. » Richard Bach
Boredom between two people doesn’t come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually. » Richard Bach
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. » Richard Bach
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You’re always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. » Richard Bach
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. » Richard Bach
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t. » Richard Bach
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I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? » Richard Bach
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. » Richard Bach
Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven’t learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn’t learned to add or multiply, at least the first time. » Richard Bach
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. » Richard Bach
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. » Richard Bach
I don’t want to do business with those who don’t make a profit, because they can’t give the best service. » Richard Bach
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A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow. » Richard Bach
One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we’ve been wishing to lead ourselves. » Richard Bach
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. » Richard Bach
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I know there’s a principle of spirit. It works without space-time. I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief of body. Learn how spirit works, a few simple rules, living a perfect spiritual life is easy. » Richard Bach
Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true. » Richard Bach
Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. » Richard Bach
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Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes. » Richard Bach
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. » Richard Bach
Get this in mind early: We never grow up. » Richard Bach
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. » Richard Bach
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. » Richard Bach
Avoid problems, and you’ll never be the one who overcame them. » Richard Bach
The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It’s Intimacy » Richard Bach
Listen,’ he said. ‘It’s important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do. » Richard Bach
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. » Richard Bach
Same with anyone who’s been flying for years and loves it still… we’re part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we’re one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind! » Richard Bach
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection. » Richard Bach
If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim. » Richard Bach
It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know. » Richard Bach
Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. » Richard Bach
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. » Richard Bach
He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all » Richard Bach
The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise. » Richard Bach
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. » Richard Bach
Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you’re a master, and you are. » Richard Bach
The gull sees farthest who flies highest » Richard Bach