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Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!
Richard Bach
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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
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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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Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
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True enjoy stories never ever have endings.
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I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much.
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.
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A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.
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Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.
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The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.
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We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.
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Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.
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How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.
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If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
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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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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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I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.
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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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My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
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