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
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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
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It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.
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Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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There is a kind of silver spiderweb that's spun around the world, and the strands of that web are certain loves and certain understandings. And if we follow those, and if we walk those strands, we're going to meet others at the intersections who have been walking the same way across this web. And when we meet, there's a kind of "I know who you are."
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Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
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Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.
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The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
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When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'
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Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
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Fear is all the fear of some loss: "I'm going to lose something." If we declare, and if we know in our hearts, "I already have everything that I need: I have life, I have creativity, I have joy, I have nourishment. I have everything I need," and if we just say, "It doesn't depend on my having a physical body to do it," then everything opens up.
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Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.
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Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.