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Richard Bach [1936-0] American

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Novelist, Writer

Richard David Bach is an American writer. Bach is widely known as the author of some hugely popular 1970s best-sellers, including Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah.

Happiness, Learning, Love, Change, Family, Inspirational, Life, Relationship, Respect, Best, Experience, Fear, Future, Home, Imagination, Nature, Power, Romantic, Success, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.	Family, Life, Respect	101
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.	Best, Happiness	102
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.	Love, Relationship	103
True love stories never have endings.	Love, Romantic	104
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.	Nature	105
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.		106
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.		107
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.	Happiness	108
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.		109
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.		110
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.		111
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?	Love	112
You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.		113
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.	Happiness	114
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.	Fear, Inspirational	115
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.	Success	116
In order to win, you must expect to win.		117
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.		118
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.		119
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.		120
One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.	Experience	121
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.	Power	122
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.		123
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.	Change, Home	124
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.		125
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.	Work	126
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.	Change, Future, Inspirational	201
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.	Happiness	202
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.		203
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.		204
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.		205
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.		206
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.		207
The simplest things are often the truest.		208
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.	Imagination	209
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.		210
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.	Relationship, Respect	211
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.		212
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.	Learning	213
I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.		214
You teach best what you most need to learn.	Learning	215
Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!		216
Learning is finding out what you already know.	Learning	217
Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.		218
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.	Family	219
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.		220
Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.		221
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.		222
I know there's a principle of spirit. It works without space-time. I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief of body. Learn how spirit works, a few simple rules, living a perfect spiritual life is easy.		223
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.		224
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.		225
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!		226
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.	Life	301
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?		302
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.		303
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.		304
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.		305
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.		306
Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.		307
Get this in mind early: We never grow up.		308
Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.		309

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