Quotes by
Richard Bach |
1936- , American writer
Most of his books involve flight in some way, from the early stories which are purely about flying aircraft, to Stranger to the Ground (1963), his first book, to his later works, in which he used flight as a philosophical metaphor.He is known for the 1970s best-seller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1970).
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Quotations
| • | If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. 3 |
| • | I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. 3 |
| • | Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. 3 |
| • | The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor. 2 |
| • | You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. 2 |
| • | The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. 2 |
| • | You're never given a dream without the power to make it true. 1 |
| • | Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually. |
| • | Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. |
| • | Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. |
| • | Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences. |
| • | 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. |
| • | You can't solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems solved. |
| • | To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. |
| • | You wait a lifetime to meet someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that someone, all along, has been you. |
| • | Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth? |
| • | Perspective - Use It or Lose It. |
| • | A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. |
| • | Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. |
