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Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

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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Grief
Sorrow
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Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.
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If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?
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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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By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become.
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Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.
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Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.
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Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.
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Money is a great isolator. In fact, we don't even need to have money or make money, we only need to be perceived as having money to be isolated in the strangest ways from most of the community around us. It reaches the point where a person with money spends a great deal of time reacting to people who are reacting to the money.
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The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.
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Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.
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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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The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.
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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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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
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That’s what learning is, after all not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.
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If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
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The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.
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Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
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