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
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.
drug trying answers
I'm not approachable by someone who says, "Let's try some drugs," or something like that. I'm absolutely close-minded about that kind of thing. But I'm wide open to anyone who says, "I've been wondering why we're here and where we're going, and I've got a few answers, but I wondered if anything ever happened to you that suggests..." Then they have me, and I become a chatterbox and can just talk away literally for days.
past simple men
At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.
reality world moments
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.
princess adventure thinking
We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure... not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth!
worry decision asks
"What is my highest sense of right?" we can ask at any decision point in our lives and not worry about if this is going to lose us a lot of money or is this going to make us a lot of money or whatever.
fake-people truth integrity
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
powerful commitment opportunity
Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.
writing thinking typewriters
It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned - when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse.
war adventure self
One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.
team skills discipline
Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.
years rewards hard
There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.
destiny up-to-you want
Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.