Richard Bach Quotes

• Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Lifetime, Impossible

• Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Meet, Better, Friends

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

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Honesty, Life, Wisdom

  Tags in Measure, Listen, Conscience, Inspiration

• You teach best what you most need to learn.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learn, Need

• You don’t want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lifetime, Want, Study

• You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Inspirational, Power

  Tags in True, Wish

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

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Future, Past

  Tags in Change, Choose

• To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fly, Arrived

• To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Life

• There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Learn, Necessary, Need

• The simplest things are often the truest.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Truest, Simplest, Often

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simplest, Change, Think

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

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Fear, Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Wonder, Change, Changed

• The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Family, Joy, Life, Respect

• The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enjoy, Lovely, Best, Moment

• Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strong, Men

• Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Times, Choice

• Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Family

• Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Life

• Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Truth

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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