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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
Military Officer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
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Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
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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?
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We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.
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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.
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What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.
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You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
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Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
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Like most writers, we like to find what we know and pass it along to anyone who cares. When that's done, as soon as we've said the best we can say, there's nothing else about us that's remotely interesting to anybody else, and we go back behind the walls. We can be intimate in books, we can be intimate in talks, but then we need time to be alone.
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There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
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We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.
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No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it.
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The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.” “No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?
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One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.
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As you believe, so it is for you.
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.
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Whatever We Hold in Thought Comes True in Our Experience Like Attracts Like we experiment with the Law of Changing Appearances, to make our outer world reflect our inner.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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