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
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.
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
feelings rooms feeling-bad
Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.
risk important
Before you'll change, something important must be at risk.
our-thoughts our-lives
We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.
love-is next language
Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.
school you-choose personal-experiences
You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.
dream jonathan-livingston-seagull given
You're never given a dream without the power to make it true.
use-it-or-lose-it perspective use
Perspective: use it or lose it.
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Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.
law-of-attraction matter imagine
No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it.
choices design made
We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.
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...'