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How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?

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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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There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
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Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.
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Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.
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All of us are called by something in this world that attracts us. And it doesn't matter what it is - you can be an engine mechanic or an aviator or you can be someone who loves their flower garden or the world of commerce or sailboats.
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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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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
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How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.
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Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.
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nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.
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We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.
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It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.
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How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.
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