Richard Bach - Collected Quotes

"In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime."  (Richard Bach, "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah", 1977)

"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." (Richard Bach, "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah", 1977)

"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, "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah", 1977)

"You teach best what you most need to learn." (Richard Bach, "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah", 1977)

"The only things that matter are those made of truth and joy, and not of tin and glass." (Richard Bach, :There’s No Such Place as Far Away", 1979)

"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go." (Richard Bach, "The Bridge across Forever", 1984)

"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, "One", 1988)

"In every language, from Arabic to Zulu to calligraphy to shorthand to math to music to art to wrought stone, everything from the Unified Field Theory to a curse to a sixpenny nail to an orbiting satellite, anything expressed is a net around some idea." (Richard Bach, "One", 1988)

"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, "One", 1988)

"No one can solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don’t want problems solved." (Richard Bach, "One", 1988)

"The exciting thing about ideas is putting them to work. The moment we try them on our own, launch them away from shore, they switch from what-if to become daring plunges down white rivers, as dangerous and as exhilarating." (Richard Bach, "One", 1988)

"The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice." (Richard Bach, "One", 1988)

"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift. We seek problems because we need their gifts." (Richard Bach)