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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
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It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.
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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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How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?
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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
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In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
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Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.
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Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.
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Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.
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Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
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What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?
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Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.
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And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand coincidences and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance.
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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Do you think, if you say the word impossible enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?
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What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the answer. If you haven't already, I'd suggest you want to find your soulmate, as soon as you can. Next question?
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I think the source of our sorrow and the source of our joy are intimately entwined. Our sorrow is that we have forgotten who we are, we have forgotten we are one with that source of all life - absolutely indestructible, perfect, joyful. The source of our joy is when we remember that.
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Before you'll change, something important must be at risk.
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It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare.
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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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You teach best that which you need most to learn.
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