Richard Bach Quotes

"Real love stories never have endings."

"I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me."

"A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed...It feels an impulsion...this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons."

"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes, a farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

"Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy"

"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."

"You are not little because you are already grown, playing among your lifetimes as do we all, for the fun of living."

"There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside."

"Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else's list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives."

"Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly"

"The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't."

"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there."

"You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however."

"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."

"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."

"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."

"An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it."

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

"You teach best what you most need to learn."

"The world's crazy when it comes to beauty."