Richard Bach Quotes

• I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Happy, Impress

• Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Ideas

• A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Future, Life

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

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Life

• ‘I don’t know they’re true,’ he said. ‘I believe them because it’s fun to believe them.’

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

• ‘To begin with,’ he said heavily,‘you’ve got to understand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself.’

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Uncategorized

• He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Life

• Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Inspirational

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

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Death

• The simplest things are often the truest.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Truest

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Imagine, Ourselves

• You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, True

• The seagull sees farthest who flies highest.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in French Proverbs

• If you love something, set it free if it comes backs it’s yours if it doesn’t, it never was.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Never, Something, Come

• The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Ignorance, Philosophy

• In order to win, you must expect to win.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Expectations, Uncategorized

  Tags in Win

• 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.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Dream, Life

  Tags in Limits, Understanding

Richard Bach (73)

Birth:	23rd June, 1936
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

ichard David Bach is an American writer. He is widely known as the author of the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, among others. His books espouse his philosophy that our apparent physical limits and mortality are merely appearance. He claims to be a direct descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is noted for his love of flying and for his books related to air flight and flying in a metaphorical context. He has pursued flying as a hobby since the age of 17.

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