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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.

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
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Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.
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Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
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As you believe, so it is for you.
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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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Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so.
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