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Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.

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
Richard Bach
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Fail
Failing
Matter
Love

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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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Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
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He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all
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Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
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Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.
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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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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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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
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You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.
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Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, Jonathan would say, other times, is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.
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No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
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Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.
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Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take 'em on.
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
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Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.
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Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...
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Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.
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