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Richard Bach
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“Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, we may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.”
Richard Bach (born 1936) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nothing by Chance: A Gypsy Pilot's Adventures in Modern America (1969)
“An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
Richard Bach (born 1936) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Gift of Wings (1974)
“You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.”
Richard Bach (born 1936) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: There's No Such Place As Far Away (1978)
“Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.”
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Recorded in: There's No Such Place As Far Away (1978)
“Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.”
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Recorded in: There's No Such Place As Far Away (1978)
“If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.”
Richard Bach (born 1936) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit (1994)
“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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“Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight — how to get from shore to food and back again.”
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“We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.”
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“Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull’s life is so short, and with these gone from his thoughts, he lived a long fine life indeed.”
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“The gull sees farthest who flies highest.”
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“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.”
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“But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty.”
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“If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?”
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“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.”
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“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
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“The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.”
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“Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no need of that kind of promise.”
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“A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.”
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“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.”
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“Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”
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“Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.”
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“Everything in this book may be wrong.”
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“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.”
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“If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.”
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“If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”
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“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”
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“Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.”
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“In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.”
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“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.”
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“Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.”
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“Perspective— Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.”
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“Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place.”
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“The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities.”
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“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”
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“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
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“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
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“The original sin is to limit the Is. —Don't.”
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“The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.”
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“There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."… "You're quoting Snoopy the dog, I believe?" "I'll quote the truth wherever I find it thank you.”
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“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.”
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“We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.”
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“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.”
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“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.”
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“You teach best what you most need to learn.”
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“You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced lifeforms, and they'll call you crazy.”
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“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
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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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“I felt like a moth in a chandelier — all at once there were lots of pretty choices, but I wasn't quite sure where to fly.”
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“No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.”
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