Richard Bach
- Country : United States
- Profession :American Writer.
- DOB: 2023-06-23
Richard Bach, born on June 23, 1936, in Oak Park, Illinois, is a renowned American author best known for his inspirational and philosophical works. He began his career as a U.S. Air Force pilot and later as a barnstorming pilot, experiences that deeply influenced his writing. Bach achieved literary fame with his 1970 novel “Jonathan Livingston Seagull,” a fable about a seagull’s quest for self-discovery and freedom, which became a bestseller and a classic. His other notable works include “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah” and “The Bridge Across Forever.” Bach’s writings often explore spiritual and metaphysical themes, earning him a dedicated following of readers seeking enlightenment and self-realization.
An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.
Author: Richard BachEvery step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.
Author: Richard BachResponsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There’s only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.
Author: Richard BachLive never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
Author: Richard BachMy airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
Author: Richard BachWhat matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.
Author: Richard BachThe only true law is that which leads to freedom, Jonathan said. There is no other.
Author: Richard BachThat’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.
Author: Richard BachHe was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.
Author: Richard BachIf you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
Author: Richard BachWhen we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that’s going to matter is ‘What is the quality of our love?’
Author: Richard BachNavigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.
Author: Richard BachSometimes when you say goodbye, that’s the right thing to do in a relationship.
Author: Richard BachIt was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.
Author: Richard BachHow can we resent the life we’ve created for ourselves? Who’s to blame, who’s to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?
Author: Richard BachAllow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
Author: Richard BachWe design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we’ve made choices by default, when we haven’t designed our lives on our own.
Author: Richard BachThere is something to astrology for those who believe in astrology, as there is something to medicine for those who believe in medicine. Every system works when we give our heart to it.
Author: Richard BachOnly a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don’t have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.
Author: Richard BachYou 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.
Author: Richard BachOne of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.
Author: Richard BachAnybody who’s ever mattered, anybody who’s ever been happy, anybody who’s ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.
Author: Richard BachMost gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight – how to get from shore to food and back again.
Author: Richard BachBy your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become.
Author: Richard BachWe can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
Author: Richard BachThe meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Author: Richard BachNever stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.
Author: Richard BachDon’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them.
Author: Richard BachGrief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.
Author: Richard BachIf we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.
Author: Richard BachIn the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
Author: Richard BachEverything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning’s cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.
Author: Richard BachJonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
Author: Richard BachPerspective – Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you’re forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.
Author: Richard BachYou are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
Author: Richard BachThat’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.
Author: Richard BachAn easy life doesn’t teach us anything. In the end it’s the learning that matters: what we’ve learned and how we’ve grown.
Author: Richard BachThe space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.
Author: Richard BachBad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!
Author: Richard BachIf 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.
Author: Richard BachThere’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.
Author: Richard BachI’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.
Author: Richard BachNo 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.
Author: Richard BachAsk yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
Author: Richard BachFor most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
Author: Richard BachI do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.
Author: Richard BachI relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.
Author: Richard BachYou can’t solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don’t want problems solved.
Author: Richard BachWithin each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
Author: Richard BachYou wait a lifetime to meet someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that someone, all along, has been you.
Author: Richard BachIn order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Author: Richard BachReputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Author: Richard BachThere 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.
Author: Richard BachYour 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.
Author: Richard BachThe 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.
Author: Richard BachDon’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.
Author: Richard BachThe big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don’t think. Don’t care.
Author: Richard BachLife does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life.
Author: Richard BachYour conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Author: Richard BachYour friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Author: Richard BachTo fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
Author: Richard BachOf course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.
Author: Richard BachThere is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
Author: Richard BachIf your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Author: Richard BachA soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.
Author: Richard BachAny powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.
Author: Richard BachEvery 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.
Author: Richard BachOvercome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.
Author: Richard BachOur soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
Author: Richard BachLearning 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.
Author: Richard BachWhen 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!
Author: Richard BachCan miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?
Author: Richard BachThe only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?
Author: Richard BachRemember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.
Author: Richard BachI do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.
Author: Richard BachHere is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
Author: Richard BachDon’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.
Author: Richard BachYou are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Author: Richard Bach