Richard Bach Quotes - Page 11

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• When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter - just kind of dissolves and there's this whirling tunnel of mist and there's a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I laugh sometimes in surprise at what they say.

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Character, Tunnels

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

  Richard Bach

  Rewards, Knows, Highest

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• Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Years, Civilization

  "One". Book by Richard Bach, 1988.

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• You seek problems because you need their gifts.

  Richard Bach

  Needs, Problem, Small Gifts

  1977 Illusions.

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• With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es."

  Richard Bach

  Numbers, Giving, Decision

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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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

  Richard Bach

  Flying, Gulls, Facts

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

  Richard Bach

  Numbers, Perfection, Limits

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• 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.

  Richard Bach

  Spiritual, Fun, Thinking

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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.

  Richard Bach

  Real, Character, Practice

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was.

  Richard Bach

  Mistake, Blessing, Practice

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• You're master of what you've lived,
  artisan at what you're living,
  amateur at what's next to live.

  Richard Bach

  Next, Masters, Artisans

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• The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

  Richard Bach

  Lying, Lies We Tell Ourselves, Denial

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• Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with fears, or if we trust the fears of others, we'll choose a path in which our city falls into the sea, or a path in which a third world war vaporizes us, or whatever other disaster is most thrilling or horrifying or fascinating for us.

  Richard Bach

  War, Moving, Fall

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.

  Richard Bach

  Reality, Form, Caught

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• A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.

  Richard Bach

  Soulmate, Keys, Soul Mate

  "The Bridge Across Forever: A Lovestory". Book by Richard Bach, 1989.

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• The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable.

  Richard Bach

  Airplane, Sky, Joy

  Richard Bach (2012). “Nothing By Chance”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

  Richard Bach

  Judging, Decision, Joy

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• Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

  Richard Bach

  Practice, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

  Richard Bach

  Flying, Gulls, Matter

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• We can start working with time if you wish," Chiang said, "till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to begin to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love.

  Richard Bach

  Fun, Powerful, Kindness

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.

  Richard Bach

  Real, Mean, Practice

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

  Richard Bach

  Children, Parent, Parents Love

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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.

  Richard Bach

  Sight, Views, Humanity

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.200, Dell

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• Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother
  to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this
  gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else,
  Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Bird, Flying

  RICHARD BACH (1970). “JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL”

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• One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.

  Richard Bach

  War, Adventure, Self

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