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
use-it-or-lose-it perspective use
Perspective: use it or lose it.
dream jonathan-livingston-seagull given
You're never given a dream without the power to make it true.
our-thoughts our-lives
We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.
risk important
Before you'll change, something important must be at risk.
fascination watches stage
What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.
leadership sports mean
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why we call it the present. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And If not now, when? A brick alone is nothing but a brick. It takes a collection of bricks to build a house. Instructor, what?? You mean you teach best what you most need to learn
inspirational blessing disaster
Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.
waiting lifetime accepting
You wait a lifetime to meet someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that someone, all along, has been you.
children son ideas
We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.
jobs philosophical cutting
We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty to ridicule us, it is their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different! And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card-games philosophical: 'Ah well, we can't toast 'em all...'
feelings rooms feeling-bad
Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.
love-is next language
Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.
quality size crowds
You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.
air feelings sound
Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.