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
few owned pilots quiet spirit talk weave
I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.
eating flying
For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
beings cells descended dust formed god jealous physical violence
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
doers others reminding teaching
Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.
mirror
Look in a mirror and one thing's sure; what we see is not who we are.
learn
One must learn to fall, if one would fly.
living loved perfection reach touch
The most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which we most loved to do
friends-or-friendship miles separate truly
Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
afraid anyone boat creative desperate extremes solve start zealand
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.
perfection sake scorn travel
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly.
hold learned
Do you know what I learned from you? I learned what is possible, and now I must hold out for what I thought we had.
answers asked colors lifetime minute study
Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, being you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.
american-novelist given ideas power suffer
An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
certain inner learn learning led lifetime playful possible spiritual turn
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.