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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.'

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
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Opinion Journalist
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Oak Park
Illinois
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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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We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
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We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure... not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth!
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A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe...
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An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown
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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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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.
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When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.
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Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.
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Some religions believe that there's a hierarchy, that you don't have a connection, but you must go through the shaman or the priest or whoever the religious leader is. And that's what surprises me, that some people who find a huge value in these kinds of systems also seem to enjoy ILLUSIONS. I can't figure it out.
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It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare.
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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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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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Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take 'em on.
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Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so.
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The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.
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Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.
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For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.
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Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.
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