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

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
Military Officer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Prosaist
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
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Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.
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He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them
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That’s what learning is, after all not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.
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When you're flying, an airplane doesn't care who you are it doesn't care how much money you make or don't make. All it cares about is: How well do you fly? How well do you know the airplane? How well do you know the sky?
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A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool. In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift.
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Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.
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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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The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.
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Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.
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Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.
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Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, Jonathan would say, other times, is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.
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The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
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The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.
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By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become.
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Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
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Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
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Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.
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It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?
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And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.
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Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.
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