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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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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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