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
book thinking world
I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into.
dream miracle lovely
Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.
ignorance skills flying
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
jesus reality flying
What if somebody came along who could teach me how my world works and how to control it What if I could meet a super-advanced ... what if a Siddhartha or a Jesus came into our time, with power over the illusions of the world because he knew the reality behind them And what if I could meet him in person, if he were flying a biplane, for instance, and landed in the same meadow with me.
law gulls jonathan-livingston-seagull
The only true law is that which leads to freedom,
flying gulls matter
For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
stars heart light
In spite of my study, I have learned. Every grand religion begins in light. Yet only hearts hold light. Pages cannot. I have paper in my hands. Give these words to the world and they will be loved and understood by those who already know their truth. The truth doesn't burn. The truth waits for anyone who wishes to find it... only these pages will burn. At one with the stars... with the pages and their love... one with everything that is, that ever was or will be. One.
life matter easy
An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown
believe may want
Everything you've said, everything you want to believe is already true. You may not find some of it for a while, and some of it might take longer than that, but that doesn't stop it from being true this minute!
thinking people creative
We [people] have the power to destroy ourselves as well as the environment. As a species we love what I'd call brinks-person-ship, going right to the edge of disaster and somehow managing to pull back and recover. But my bet is still on the creative and playful and positive in the species. I think we will manage to survive and gradually turn things around.
adventure long-ago moments
Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.
life shows
Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.
compelling-reason emotion convince
Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.
song individual millions
When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.