Richard Bach
Richard Bach
Richard David Bach is an American writer. Bach is widely known as the author of some hugely popular 1970s best-sellers, including Jonathan Livingston Seagulland Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. Bach has authored numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including Oneand Out of My Mind...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 June 1936
CountryUnited States of America
school jonathan-livingston-seagull jonathan-seagull
One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.
years two imagination
Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.
men thinking two
If we change in different directions, then we don't have any future anyway, do we? I think it's possible for two people to change together, to grow together and enrich instead of diminish each other. The sum of one and one, if they're the right ones, can be infinity! But so often one person drags the other down; one person wants to go up like a balloon and the other's a dead weight. I've always wondered what it would be like if both people, if a woman and a man both wanted to go up like balloons!
character thinking people
Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
resent
How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?
thinking enough-time impossible
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Do you think, if you say the word "impossible" enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?
education teacher want
If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.
education what-matters people
Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.
judging example checks
Every word that judges value is circular. 'Good' is 'right' is 'proper' is 'just' is 'good'. But check the examples, and they're not circular at all: Every one says 'makes me happy'.
believe
As you believe, so it is for you.
fun games otters
We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.
missing-someone missing mets
Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?
adventure odds risk
What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?
home fame fine
Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.