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
years choices guarantees
A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.
night dragons years
We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks.
years two imagination
Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.
block past years
We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.
song years giving
You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.
love years civilization
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.
years rewards hard
There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.
doers others reminding teaching
Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.
choice choose drawn events
Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
certain inner learn learning led lifetime playful possible spiritual turn
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
ashamed living published
Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world - even if what is published is not true.
anytime change created credit environment exactly generate life resent
We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?
anywhere begin fast fly imagination knowing
''To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.''
learn
One must learn to fall, if one would fly.