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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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Flying
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The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable.
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Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.
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Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.
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And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.
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How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.
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Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.
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Learning is finding out what you already know.
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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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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.
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What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?
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Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
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I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into.
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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were.
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Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her.
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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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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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