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Richard Bach

Richard David Bach is an American writer. Bach is widely known as the author of some hugely popular 1970s best-sellers, including Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977). Bach has written numerous works of fiction, and also non-fiction flight-related titles.

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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?"

— Richard Bach

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."

— Richard Bach

"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!"

— Richard Bach

"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were."

— Richard Bach

"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder."

— Richard Bach

"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past."

— Richard Bach

"The simplest things are often the truest."

— Richard Bach

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

— Richard Bach

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

— Richard Bach

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough theyre yours."

— 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 the butterfly."

— Richard Bach

"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it."

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."

— Richard Bach

"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."

— Richard Bach

"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?"

— Richard Bach

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."

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"You teach best what you most need to learn."

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"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly."

— Richard Bach

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."

— Richard Bach

"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there."

— Richard Bach

"Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger."

— Richard Bach

"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose."

— Richard Bach

"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice."

— 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

"Don't be dismayed by 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."

— Richard Bach

"In order to win, you must expect to win."

— Richard Bach

"Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them."

— Richard Bach

"Learning is finding out what you already know."

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

— Richard Bach

"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear."

— Richard Bach

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