Quotes by Richard Bach

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.

You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

A moment later Jonathan’s body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. “Don’t let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I’m a seagull. I like to fly, maybe…

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

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one famiy grow up under the same roof

Ill quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Like attracts like. Itll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow something will happen, something you couldnt plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

But one creature said at last, I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gulls life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

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

We reviewed the ways we had to bring customers: Method A, flying aerobatics at the edge of town. Method B, the parachute jump. Then we began experimenting with Method C. There is a principle that says if you lay out a lonely solitaire game in the center of the wilderness, someone will soon come along to look over your shoulder and tell you how to play your cards. This was the principle of Method C. We unrolled our sleeping bags and stretched out under the wing, completely uncaring.

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , Its Intimacy

What matters most:What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.Wind, Sand and Stars.

Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise . . . Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer!---Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe youre a master, and you are.

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, Ive gotresponsibilities.