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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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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
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The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.
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My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
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One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.
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Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.
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Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual
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I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.
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If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.
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For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.
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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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Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.
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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
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What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.
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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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The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.
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There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].
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I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into.
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