The voices / 76 fragments

Richard Bach

Dates not recorded

Name supplied in the contributor-provided quotation collection. Basic attribution label; identity, lifetime and quotation authenticity have not been independently verified.

Author and source reference ↗

▷ Play this voice Search within this voice ↗Place in time ↗life truth knowledge justice death mind love learning

Archive entries

01Undated

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 / quote

02Undated

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

Richard Bach / quote

03Undated

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 / quote

04Undated

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

Richard Bach / quote

05Undated

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

Richard Bach / quote

06Undated

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 / quote

07Undated

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

Richard Bach / quote

08Undated

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

Richard Bach / quote

09Undated

The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.

Richard Bach / quote

10Undated

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Richard Bach / quote

11Undated

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 a butterfly.

Richard Bach / quote

12Undated

Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.

Richard Bach / quote

13Undated

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

Richard Bach / quote

14Undated

If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.

Richard Bach / quote

15Undated

Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.

Richard Bach / quote

16Undated

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

Richard Bach / quote

17Undated

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

Richard Bach / quote

18Undated

Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.

Richard Bach / quote

19Undated

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.

Richard Bach / quote

20Undated

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

Richard Bach / quote

21Undated

Whatever harm I would do to another, I shall do first to myself.As I respect and am kind to myself, so shall I respect and be kind to peers, to elders, to kits.I claim for others the freedom to live as they wish, to think and believe as they will. I claim that freedom for myself.I shall make each choice and live each day to my highest sense of right.

Richard Bach / quote

22Undated

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

Richard Bach / quote

23Undated

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Richard Bach / quote

24Undated

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

Richard Bach / quote