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
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.
expression perfect body
If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it’s condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don’t have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.
children parent parents-love
Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.
goodbye fun safety
It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.
heart long treasure
It doesn't matter whether they [beloved ones] are on this planet or not on this planet anymore. Once something is bound by love, as long as that love exists, there is nothing that can separate us. There is the appearance of separation, but the heart, it always treasures and values that.
people quality crowds
Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don't have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.
dream gratitude yesterday-and-today
Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.
way findings finished
I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it’s not finished yet.
war adventure people
We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.
beauty limits sin
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.
suicide suicidal starting-over
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.