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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.

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
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Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.
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We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
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Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?
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If we believe that we're separated from someone, though they stand in the same room with us, we're separated. If we believe that we're together, if we believe that they are with us, if we listen through our inner senses, there's a chance we'll hear.
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Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.
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Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.
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I don't think creativity is mine to maintain. It automatically comes when we declare that I am an expression of life, and life will express itself through me in the most playful and wonderful of ways, if I let it.
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Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual
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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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Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.
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Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.
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Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?
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Whatever enchants also guides and protects.
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Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.
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You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.
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Like most writers, we like to find what we know and pass it along to anyone who cares. When that's done, as soon as we've said the best we can say, there's nothing else about us that's remotely interesting to anybody else, and we go back behind the walls. We can be intimate in books, we can be intimate in talks, but then we need time to be alone.
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It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes quiet for a time, and I think it's gone, but it's gathering energy for another burst. And I seem to be almost unwilling participants in this.
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Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.
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