American writer (1936- )
Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
RICHARD BACH
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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
Illusions
An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.
RICHARD BACH
Nothing by Chance
The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."
RICHARD BACH
Illusions
Reality is divinely indifferent.
RICHARD BACH
Illusions
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
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
RICHARD BACH
Stranger to the Ground
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
RICHARD BACH
Illusions
Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.
RICHARD BACH
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
RICHARD BACH
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.
RICHARD BACH
The simplest things are often the truest.
RICHARD BACH
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
RICHARD BACH
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
RICHARD BACH
Illusions
That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
RICHARD BACH
The Bridge Across Forever
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
RICHARD BACH
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah