Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
- Richard Bach Quote

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

Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
- Richard Bach Quote

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
- Richard Bach Quote

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!
- Richard Bach Quote

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
- Richard Bach Quote

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 Quote

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
- Richard Bach Quote

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
- Richard Bach Quote

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
- Richard Bach Quote

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.
- Richard Bach Quote

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
- Richard Bach Quote

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

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
- Richard Bach Quote

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
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If 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.
- Richard Bach Quote

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
- Richard Bach Quote

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.
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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
- Richard Bach Quote

In order to win, you must expect to win.
- Richard Bach Quote

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
- Richard Bach Quote

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

Learning is finding out what you already know.
- Richard Bach Quote

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
- Richard Bach Quote

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
- Richard Bach Quote

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

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
- Richard Bach Quote

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
- Richard Bach Quote

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
- Richard Bach Quote

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 Quote

The simplest things are often the truest.
- Richard Bach Quote

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
- Richard Bach Quote

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach Quote

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
- Richard Bach Quote

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

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 Quote

You teach best what you most need to learn.
- Richard Bach Quote

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
- Richard Bach Quote

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
- Richard Bach Quote

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 Quote