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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

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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Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.
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You teach best that which you need most to learn.
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
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Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.
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I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.
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So this world, I think, and an indefinite number of other worlds of our creation, are also - we're here for fun we're here for learning we're here for remembering who we are, and who we are, are expressions of life so absolutely linked with the life that is, always was, always will be.
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Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.
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Before you'll change, something important must be at risk.
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Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.
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Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take 'em on.
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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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Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.
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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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