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 writing airplane
I'm not a celebrity or near celebrity. Sometimes people will say, "You're famous" and that stops me right there. What does fame mean? Fame is in the eye of the beholder. So, if somebody wants to call me 'famous', that's their business. I'm just me, a guy who messes around with airplanes and writes books that make sense to him.
happiness spiritual wisdom
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
believe mirrors people
If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'
goal purpose ongoing
You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.
book heart love-is
The books remind us that way down deep in our hearts, part of us knows that we are creatures of light and we cannot be touched or destroyed by anything made out of atoms or destroyed at all - that light is indestructible. And we may reflect that and express that in multiple trillions of discrete ways, but nevertheless, that indestructible sense of joyful capacity to express life and express love is always there.
believe long unity
As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.
family spiritual respect
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
happiness spiritual sacrifice
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
stars writing thinking
It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes quiet for a time, and I think it's gone, but it's gathering energy for another burst. And I seem to be almost unwilling participants in this.
inspirational motivational positive
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
evil challenges darkness
Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.
love friendship i-miss-you
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
book important mail
Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."
inspirational life self-esteem
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.