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
answers asked colors lifetime minute study
Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, being you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.
hold learned
Do you know what I learned from you? I learned what is possible, and now I must hold out for what I thought we had.
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For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
mirror
Look in a mirror and one thing's sure; what we see is not who we are.
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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
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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.
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Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
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In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
life mission
How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't.
love
If you love something, set it free; if it comes back, it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
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The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly.
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The idea that we are physical beings descended from primeval cells in nutrient soups, that idea does violence to my intuition, stomps all over it with football-shoes. The idea that we are descended from a jealous God who formed us out of dust to choo
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I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.