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
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?
misunderstood devil jonathan-livingston-seagull
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
fake-people truth integrity
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.
soulmate two together
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.
opposites views perfect
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.
and-love testing adventuring
Testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE
uplifting
Don't fear change. It's always for the best.
spiritual fun thinking
So this world, I think, and an indefinite number of other worlds of our creation, are also - we're here for fun; we're here for learning; we're here for remembering who we are, and who we are, are expressions of life so absolutely linked with the life that is, always was, always will be.
perfection heaven swamps
If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.
truth crazy silly
So much of what we said sounded crazy, yet none of it was false... as if two theoretical physicists stood on stage to say that when we travel near lightspeed, we get younger than nontravellers; that a mile of space next to the sun is differnt than a mile of space next to the earth because the sun-mile space is curved more than the the earth-mile. Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?
space want what-you-want
The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.
perfection sake gulls
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.
dream
Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.