Richard Bach Quotes

"We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE!"

from Bridge Across Forever

"From time to time it's fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to ourselves, "I am the sorcerer, and when I open my eyes I shall see a world that I have created, and for which I and only I am completely responsible." Slowly then, eyelids open like curtains lifting stage-center. And sure enough, there is our world, just the way we've built it."

from Bridge Across Forever

"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there."

from Illusions

"You are not the child of the people you call your mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are."

from There's No Such Place as Far Away

"Do you know what I learned from you? I learned what is possible, and now I must hold out for what I thought we had. I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. That or nothing. I realized that what I'm looking for is not what you're looking for. You don't want what I want." "What do you think I want?" I asked. "Exactly what you have. Many women you know a little and don't care very much about. Superficial flirtations mutual use, no chance of love. That's my idea of hell. Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, Richard, in which there is no love. Horrible! Leave me out of it."

Richard Bach (The Bridge Across Forever),

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."

Richard Bach - American author

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true"

Richard Bach, from Illusions

"Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?"

Richard Bach (There's No Such Place as Far Away)

"...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."

From Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach