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Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

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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You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
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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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My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.
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Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.
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If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were.
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True love stories never have endings.
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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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Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.
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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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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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In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
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You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
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If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.
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Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else.
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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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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
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We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.
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A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool. In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift.
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
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