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We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

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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Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.
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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
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Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.
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One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.
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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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Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.
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Whatever enchants also guides and protects.
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Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.
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The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.
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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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The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.
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Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.
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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
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Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.
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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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Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.
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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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Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
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Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.
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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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