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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For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
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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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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
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The idea that we are physical beings descended from primeval cells in nutrient soups, that idea does violence to my intuition, stomps all over it with football-shoes. The idea that we are descended from a jealous God who formed us out of dust to choo
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Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.
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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!
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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.
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''To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.''
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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.
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Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
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With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es."
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
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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.