Richard Bach Quotes

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  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

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

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Ignorance, Philosophy
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  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

• 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

  Topics in Inspirational, Life, Spirituality

  Tags in Person, Choose

• ‘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

• The seagull sees farthest who flies highest.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in French Proverbs

• 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

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character, Understand, Sometimes, Inspiration
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  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

• 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

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Good, Meet, Friends, Moments, Necessary

• Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Friendship, Love

  Tags in Want, Friends

• 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

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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