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61 " 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
62 " His vows of a moment before were forgotten, swept away in that great swift wind. Yet he felt guiltless, breaking the promises he had made himself. Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no need of that kind of promise. "
― Richard Bach , Jonathan Livingston Seagull
63 " 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. "
64 " I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. "
― Richard Bach , Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
65 " Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. "
66 " You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way". "
67 " Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place. "
68 " We teach best what we most need to learn. "
69 " That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end. "
― Richard Bach , The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
70 " 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. "
71 " Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually. "
72 " Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you´re alive it isn't. "
73 " Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us. "
― Richard Bach , One
74 " Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god. "
75 " Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes. "
76 " Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. "
77 " Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do. "
78 " You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. "
79 " It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know. "
― Richard Bach , Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit
80 " He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all "