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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
Aircraft Pilot
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Oak Park
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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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Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
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Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...
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nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.
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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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Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.
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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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In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
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In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
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With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate us-es.
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Everything you've said, everything you want to believe is already true. You may not find some of it for a while, and some of it might take longer than that, but that doesn't stop it from being true this minute!
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.
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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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He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all
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