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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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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Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.
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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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Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
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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.
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Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
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I'm utterly convinced of the One-ness of Love and us as its perfect reflection. I am absolutely convinced that the world around us is a world of appearances and anyone who wants to can practice it. Change your thought and your environment will change. It's not instantaneous and sometimes we have to work very hard to make what we want happen. Working hard and holding that thought, it will change.
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Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her.
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Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.
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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.
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We all know those who draw their boundaries carefully and say, "I'm only human. Nobody's perfect. I accept my limitations." And we know others who take an opposite view and say, "I can do anything I choose to do. It is in my power to change the world." And those are the ones who most often change the world.