Quotes by Richard Bach

“If you love someone, set them free. If they come back theyre yours; if they dont they never were.”

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

“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.”

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“A name is a label, and as soon as there is a label, the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship and label-bashing, and instead of living by a theme of ideas, people begin dying for labels... and the last thing the world needs is another religion.”

“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.”

“Avoid problems, and youll never be the one who overcame them.”

“Theres no disaster that cant become a blessing, and no blessing that cant become a disaster”

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, theyre yours.”

“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.”

“Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.”

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

“Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.”

“Dont turn away from possible futures before youre certain you dont have anything to learn from them.”

“Get this in mind early: We never grow up.”

“Fail at love, and the other tests dont matter.”

“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”

“A professional writer is an amateur who didnt quit.”

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

“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”