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
matter sun surface
You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor galaxy of one of the multiple trillions of universes. That's OK. It doesn't matter what form you take.
responsibility faults victim
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
inspirational inspiring success
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
love life loneliness
The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy
numbers giving decision
With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es."
fighting ideas perfection
Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome...
friendship happiness real-friends
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
inspirational being-yourself unique
You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".
change stars finding-yourself
Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.
believe way inevitable
One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.
inspirational funny witty
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
inspirational deserving-it matter
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
forget-everything important-events gone
There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet.
life friendship real-friends
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.