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
life happy world
I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.
oneness upset frightened
There is a sense of oneness that from time to time I'm aware of in my life. Certainly not all the time, and there are times when I get frightened and when I get upset. But at the best of times, it's a personal oneness.
happiness spiritual sacrifice
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
life friendship real-friends
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
anniversary soulmate soul-mate
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
friendship happiness real-friends
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
encouraging wisdom encouragement
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
happiness being-happy inspiration
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
misunderstood devil jonathan-livingston-seagull
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
bullying kids not-caring
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
teacher thinking people
We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.
understanding world way
There is a kind of silver spiderweb that's spun around the world, and the strands of that web are certain loves and certain understandings. And if we follow those, and if we walk those strands, we're going to meet others at the intersections who have been walking the same way across this web. And when we meet, there's a kind of "I know who you are."
discovery giving brave
One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond appearances. But there are traps that come with it. It's brave to throw off the old altars and churches and ceremonies that kept us from discovery, it's not so brave to replace them with chants and rituals and new priests who are retreads of the old.
worry decision asks
"What is my highest sense of right?" we can ask at any decision point in our lives and not worry about if this is going to lose us a lot of money or is this going to make us a lot of money or whatever.