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
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Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. Then be sure of one thing:The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
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Look in a mirror and one thing's sure; what we see is not who we are.
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Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world - even if what is published is not true.
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For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
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''To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.''
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You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
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We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?
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How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't.
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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
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Anyone desperate enough for suicide...should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.
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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.
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In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
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If you love something, set it free; if it comes back, it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.