Richard Bach Quotes

What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.
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The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.
Richard Bach
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it.
Richard Bach
What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
Can miles truly separate you from friends. ... If you want to be with someone you love aren't you already there?
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves no matter how unpleasant are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
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What the caterpillar calls a tragedy the Master calls a butterfly.
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We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go....
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Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.
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if you argue for your limitations they are yours
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The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've gotresponsibilities.
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No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.
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Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.
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Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise . . . Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer!"---Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories
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What matters most:"What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh."Wind, Sand and Stars.
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The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy
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We reviewed the ways we had to bring customers: Method A, flying aerobatics at the edge of town. Method B, the parachute jump. Then we began experimenting with Method C. There is a principle that says if you lay out a lonely solitaire game in the center of the wilderness, someone will soon come along to look over your shoulder and tell you how to play your cards. This was the principle of Method C. We unrolled our sleeping bags and stretched out under the wing, completely uncaring.
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You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
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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 those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.
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But one creature said at last, "I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.
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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, teachers.
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Like attracts like. It'll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.
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In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
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I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.
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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 famiy grow up under the same roof
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The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.
Richard Bach
A moment later Jonathan’s body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. “Don’t let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I’m a seagull. I like to fly, maybe…
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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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How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.
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My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
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don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?
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Don't be dismayed at good-byes. 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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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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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
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Get this in mind early: We never grow up.
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We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.
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Whatever harm I would do to another, I shall do first to myself.As I respect and am kind to myself, so shall I respect and be kind to peers, to elders, to kits.I claim for others the freedom to live as they wish, to think and believe as they will. I claim that freedom for myself.I shall make each choice and live each day to my highest sense of right.
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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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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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Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.
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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
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Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?
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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. 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 life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.
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If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.
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Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.
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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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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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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
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The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.
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A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.
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Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.
Richard Bach
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.
Richard Bach
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.
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No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.
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I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.
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