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Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

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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Achievement
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Humanity
Spiritual
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You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?
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Learning is finding out what you already know.
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Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.
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The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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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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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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Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.
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Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.
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A drug for everything is madness. Legal or not, prescribed or not, over-counter under-counter bought for blood on street-corners-every pill separates us from knowing our own completion and from being taught by what's true.
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We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.
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Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.
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Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.
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I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.
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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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Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.
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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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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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