1. “A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.” – Richard Bach
2. “No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.” – Richard Bach
3. “If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it’s yours, if it doesn’t, it never was.” – Richard Bach
4. “I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.” – Richard Bach
5. “Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.” – Richard Bach
6. “Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.” – Richard Bach
7. “You seek problems because you need their gifts.” – Richard Bach
8. “Everybody is given a Dream… you may have to work for it however…” – Richard Bach
9. “Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn’t make sense right away.” – Richard Bach
10. “Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.” – Richard Bach
11. “Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.” – Richard Bach
12. “The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.” – Richard Bach
13. “There is something that is transcendental about when we are immersed in that which we most love.” – Richard Bach
14. “Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.” – Richard Bach
15. “To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.” – Richard Bach
16. “I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love.” – Richard Bach
17. “Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life.” – Richard Bach
18. “Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.” – Richard Bach
19. “It always works when you know what you’re doing” – Richard Bach
20. “Do you ever have the feeling you’re a tourist on earth?” – Richard Bach
21. “The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it.” – Richard Bach
22. “The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.” – Richard Bach
23. “Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.” – Richard Bach
24. “There was a lot I didn’t understand about messiahs.” – Richard Bach
25. “It’s OK if the world is destroyed,” he said. “There are a thousand million other worlds for us to create and choose from. As long as people want planets, there will be planets to live on.” – Richard Bach
26. “Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.” – Richard Bach
27. “Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?” – Richard Bach
28. “Before you’ll change, something important must be at risk.” – Richard Bach
29. “You can’t solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don’t want problems solved.” – Richard Bach
30. “You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.” – Richard Bach
31. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” – Richard Bach
32. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach
33. “In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.” – Richard Bach
34. “I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I’m just soul on a sunbeam.” – Richard Bach
35. “Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.” – Richard Bach
36. “Real love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
37. “We’re all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.” – Richard Bach
38. “If you’re always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?” – Richard Bach
39. “The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.” – Richard Bach
40. “If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.” – Richard Bach
41. “It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.” – Richard Bach
42. “Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.” – Richard Bach
43. “Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but…” – Richard Bach
44. “You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way”.” – Richard Bach
45. “Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.” – Richard Bach
46. “Heaven is not a place, and it’s not a time. Heaven is being perfect.” – Richard Bach
47. “If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.” – Richard Bach
48. “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
49. “The simplest things are often the truest.” – Richard Bach
50. “I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won’t even reach for a pencil.” – Richard Bach
51. “That which most concerns and worries you – your survival – is the only certainty you have.” – Richard Bach
52. “Are you saying I can fly?” “I say you are free.” – Richard Bach
53. “There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.” – Richard Bach
54. “To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.” – Richard Bach
55. “Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” – Richard Bach
56. “I think there’s an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we’re guided through every step of our lives, we are. It’s a lovely sight, watching it work.” – Richard Bach
57. “I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.” – Richard Bach
58. “We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.” – Richard Bach
59. “We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.” – Richard Bach
60. “We know nothing until intuition agrees.” – Richard Bach
61. “Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.” – Richard Bach
62. “He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all” – Richard Bach
63. “How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.” – Richard Bach
64. “We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.” – Richard Bach
65. “One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.” – Richard Bach
66. “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. – Richard Bach
67. “The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?” – Richard Bach
68. “Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.” – Richard Bach
69. “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
70. “Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.” – Richard Bach
71. “Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don’t have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.” – Richard Bach
72. “The image is a dream. The beauty is real.” – Richard Bach
73. “Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.” – Richard Bach
74. “I’m a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten.” – Richard Bach
75. “Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.” – Richard Bach
76. “Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.” – Richard Bach
77. “Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” – Richard Bach
78. “The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it, no matter what; and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime.” – Richard Bach
79. “Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.” – Richard Bach
80. “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
81. “The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.” – Richard Bach
82. “Mistakes – call them unexpected learning experiences.” – Richard Bach
83. “Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” – Richard Bach
84. “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach
85. “Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.” – Richard Bach
86. “nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.” – Richard Bach
87. “If you don’t want to be a teacher, you’d better get off this planet.” – Richard Bach
88. “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
89. “Every real teacher is myself in disguise.” – Richard Bach
90. “Avoid problems, and you’ll never be the one who overcame them.” – Richard Bach
91. “How many of us count fictional characters, or those we’ve never met, among our closest friends? My hand’s up.” – Richard Bach
92. “An easy life doesn’t teach us anything. In the end it’s the learning that matters: what we’ve learned and how we’ve grown.” – Richard Bach
93. “For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.” – Richard Bach
94. “Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.” – Richard Bach
95. “Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.” – Richard Bach
96. “You gave your life to become you are right now. Was it worth it?” – Richard Bach
97. “Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.” – Richard Bach
98. “Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.” – Richard Bach
99. “No, Jonathan, there is no such place. Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.” – Richard Bach
100. “Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.” – Richard Bach
101. “Don’t fear change. It’s always for the best.” – Richard Bach
102. “There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.” – Richard Bach
103. “Keep working on love.” – Richard Bach
104. “How can we resent the life we’ve created for ourselves?” – Richard Bach
105. “Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.” – Richard Bach
106. “Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.” – Richard Bach
107. “One must first learn to fall if one would fly…” – Richard Bach
108. “Testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE.” – Richard Bach
109. “The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don’t think. Don’t care.” – Richard Bach
110. “don’t you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?” – Richard Bach
111. “Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?” – Richard Bach
112. “Look with the help of understanding, explore that what you already know…” – Richard Bach
113. “What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?” – Richard Bach
114. “Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.” – Richard Bach
115. “Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.” – Richard Bach
116. “Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?” – Richard Bach
117. “You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.” – Richard Bach
118. “If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?” – Richard Bach
119. “I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.” – Richard Bach
120. “How easy it is to be compassionate when it’s yourself you see in trouble.” – Richard Bach
121. “As you believe, so it is for you.” – Richard Bach
122. “The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.” – Richard Bach
123. “My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.” – Richard Bach
124. “Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one.” – Richard Bach
125. “No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.” – Richard Bach
126. “Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we’re all of us family; we’re all of us soulmates.” – Richard Bach
127. “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” – Richard Bach
128. “It’s easy to live the expected and conventional. It’s when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.” – Richard Bach
129. “Life is the unknown and the unknowable, except that we are put into this world to eat, to stay alive as lone as we possibly can.” – Richard Bach
130. “The opposite of loneliness is not togetherness, it’s intimacy.” – Richard Bach
131. “You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.” – Richard Bach
132. “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
133. “Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn’t have limits.” – Richard Bach
134. “If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don’t like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: ‘Hello.’” – Richard Bach
135. “Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you’re a master, and you are.” – Richard Bach
136. “Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.” – Richard Bach
137. “Anybody who’s ever mattered, anybody who’s ever been happy, anybody who’s ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.” – Richard Bach
138. “Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them.” – Richard Bach
139. “Fail at love, and the other tests don’t matter.” – Richard Bach
140. “We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.” – Richard Bach
141. “My way of writing a book is completely disorganized – to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.” – Richard Bach
142. “I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?” – Richard Bach
143. “Live enough of what you’ve always dreamed of doing, and there’s no room left for feeling bad.” – Richard Bach
144. “If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.” – Richard Bach
145. “I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.” – Richard Bach
146. “Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning’s cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.” – Richard Bach
147. “Hate is love without enough data.” – Richard Bach
148. “Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take ’em on.” – Richard Bach
149. “The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.” – Richard Bach
150. “Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.” – Richard Bach
151. “Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.” – Richard Bach
152. “Family is not necessarily made of blood, but of those you meet along the way.” – Richard Bach
153. “Those who fly the highest see the furthest.” – Richard Bach
154. “Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.” – Richard Bach
155. “Sometimes when you say goodbye, that’s the right thing to do in a relationship.” – Richard Bach
156. “We don’t have rights until we claim them.” – Richard Bach
157. “What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.” – Richard Bach
158. “It’s like, at the end, there’s this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?” – Richard Bach
159. “Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you’ll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.” – Richard Bach
160. “Everything in this book may be wrong.” – Richard Bach
161. “Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.” – Richard Bach
162. “There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.” – Richard Bach
163. “You wait a lifetime to meet someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that someone, all along, has been you.” – Richard Bach
164. “Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.” – Richard Bach
165. “A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.” – Richard Bach
166. “Reality is divinely indifferent.” – Richard Bach
167. “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
168. “We design our lives through the power of choices.” – Richard Bach
169. “Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.” – Richard Bach
170. “Soon as you realize you’re immortal,” he said, “declare the power of Love even when it seems invisible, you’ll go far beyond the illusions of space and time. In all history, the one power you never lose is your power of letting go of space and time, the joy of dying that is no wicked thing, it comes in love, to everyone.” – Richard Bach
171. “To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance.” – Richard Bach
172. “Two words: Love leads. Listen to that ring of love within. If we follow that leading of love we’ll be guaranteed an adventurous, positive, joyful life.” – Richard Bach
173. “Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.” – Richard Bach
174. “The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.” – Richard Bach
175. “Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.” – Richard Bach
176. “Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.” – Richard Bach
177. “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.” – Richard Bach
178. “I’ve learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die.” – Richard Bach
179. “The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed.” – Richard Bach
180. “Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.” – Richard Bach
181. “I don’t think creativity is mine to maintain. It automatically comes when we declare that “I am an expression of life, and life will express itself through me in the most playful and wonderful of ways, if I let it.”” – Richard Bach
182. “A person gets used to being alone, but break it just for a day and you have to get used to it again, all over from the beginning.” – Richard Bach
183. “If we believe that we’re separated from someone, though they stand in the same room with us, we’re separated. If we believe that we’re together, if we believe that they are with us, if we listen through our inner senses, there’s a chance we’ll hear.” – Richard Bach
184. “The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.” – Richard Bach
185. “You are led, when you share your loves, to an enchanted life of inner happiness, which unsharing others cannot know.” – Richard Bach
186. “This disaster is the chance you prayed for, your wish come true.” – Richard Bach
187. “You’re never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.” – Richard Bach
188. “Build an inner place to protect your truth.” – Richard Bach
189. “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
190. “Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.” – Richard Bach
191. “Everything above may be wrong!” – Richard Bach
192. “Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.” – Richard Bach
193. “Learning is finding out what you already know.” – Richard Bach
194. “Everything you’ve said, everything you want to believe is already true. You may not find some of it for a while, and some of it might take longer than that, but that doesn’t stop it from being true this minute!” – Richard Bach
195. “In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.” – Richard Bach
196. “I didn’t see how that applied to me, and reminded myself never to let a book replace my own thinking.” – Richard Bach
197. “Thanks to you, I always am so happy. Now I want to give you all the happiness on your birthday.” – Richard Bach
198. “The world’s crazy, when it comes to beauty.” – Richard Bach
199. “Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.” – Richard Bach
200. “Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.” – Richard Bach