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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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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You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
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You are not little because you are already grown, playing among your lifetimes as do we all, for the fun of living.
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You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
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What are we trying to practice every day? If our friendship depends onthings like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time,we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we haveleft is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in themiddle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other onceor twice?
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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.
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The way to avoid responsibility is to say, ''I've got responsibilities.''
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The most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which we most loved to do
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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.
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Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. 'Nothing' is the worst thing that can happen to us!
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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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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
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Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.