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
real mean practice
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.
transcendental
There is something that is transcendental about when we are immersed in that which we most love.
believe thinking sight
I think there's an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. It's a lovely sight, watching it work.
inspirational lying slavery
Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
world quitting
It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.
stories jonathan-livingston-seagull love-story
That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.
writing ideas two
There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].
fear overcoming wonder
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
inspirational growth problem
Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
thinking law-of-attraction cosmic
One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.
people shining who-we-are
Whatever it is that calls us, that's our path. And as we walk that path, we have a chance to shine forth who we are. It affects other people around us.
rewards highest knows
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
two people boredom
Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.
family growing-up criminal-mind
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.