Richard Bach: Quotes about love

Richard Bach is American spiritual writer. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.”

Richard Bach

“True love stories never have endings.”

Richard Bach

“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?”

Richard Bach book The Bridge Across Forever

Source: The Bridge Across Forever (1984), Ch. 21

“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?”

Richard Bach book The Bridge Across Forever

Source: The Bridge Across Forever (1984), Ch. 48
Context: The things we own, the places we live, the events of our lives: empty settings. How easy to chase after settings, and forget diamonds! 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.”

Richard Bach

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

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

Richard Bach

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“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?”

Richard Bach

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“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.”

Richard Bach

Source: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit

“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.”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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

Richard Bach

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“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.”

Richard Bach

Source: One

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

Richard Bach

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“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!”

Richard Bach

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“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….”

Richard Bach

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“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.”

Richard Bach

One (1988)