Quotes By Richard Bach

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

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

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

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

Learning is finding out what you already know.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

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.

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

True love stories never have endings.

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

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

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.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

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

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

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.

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.