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No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have 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
Richard Bach
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The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
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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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Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.
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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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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
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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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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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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were.
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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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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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Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. It’s only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings.
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Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.
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An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown
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You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.
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There is something to astrology for those who believe in astrology, as there is something to medicine for those who believe in medicine. Every system works when we give our heart to it.
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Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?
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