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
fear loss annoyed
For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices? It took a second to settle down: I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool.
compelling-reason emotion convince
Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.
suicide suicidal starting-over
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.
adventure long-ago moments
Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.
flower garden world
All of us are called by something in this world that attracts us. And it doesn't matter what it is - you can be an engine mechanic or an aviator or you can be someone who loves their flower garden or the world of commerce or sailboats.
soulmate two together
Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
trouble easy compassionate
How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.
life matter easy
An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown
expression perfect body
If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it’s condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don’t have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.
transcendental
There is something that is transcendental about when we are immersed in that which we most love.
choices remember life-decision
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
ignorance skills flying
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
fear overcoming wonder
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
self anorexia eating-disorder
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?