Richard Bach Quotes

"Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price"

"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem."

"Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it."

"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."

"How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't."

"The most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which we most loved to do"

"It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost"

"Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter."

"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"

"The way to avoid responsibility is to say, ''I've got responsibilities.''"

"Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?"

"''To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.''"

"The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly."

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."

"As you believe, so it is for you."

"Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]"

"Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love."

"There's always some aftermath, good and bad, makes-me-happy or makes-me-unhappy, for anything we choose to do."

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."

"When 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!"