Richard Bach: Quotes about love

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

“True love stories never have endings.”

“What I have just heard is pure... listen!... radiance, that you took from cloud-linings and sunrises and distilled into light that I can hear! Do you know how good, how lovely that is, what you can make the piano do?”

“The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?”

“That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.”

“Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.”

“The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.”

“No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?”

“Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.”

“You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.”

“Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.”

“Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.”

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

“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!”

“Passionately obsessed by anything we love--an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love….”

“If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.”

“Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to Love.”

“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”

“If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.”