Richard Bach Quotes

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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.

Richard Bach
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach
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.

Richard Bach
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.

Richard Bach
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

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.

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To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Richard Bach
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.

Richard Bach
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
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.

Richard Bach
It's not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

Richard Bach
It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

Richard Bach
No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

Richard Bach
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

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It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.

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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.

Richard Bach
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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Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

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This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.

Richard Bach
The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. It is intimacy.

Richard Bach
I belong to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane. There is no space alotted for another pilot to tune the radios in the weather or make the calls to air traffic control centers or to help with the emergency procedures or to call off the airspeed down final approach. There is no one else to break the solitude of a long cross-country flight. There is no one else to make decisions.

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You know who you are inside, but people outside see something different. You can choose to become the image, and let go of who you are, or continue as you are and feel phony when you play the image.

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Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare writer who comes alive on a page does it by giving of himself, by writing of meanings, and not just of fact or of things that have happened to him. The writers of flight who have done this are usually found together in a special section on private bookshelves.

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Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!

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Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.

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