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Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
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We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
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There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].
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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
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What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the answer. If you haven't already, I'd suggest you want to find your soulmate, as soon as you can. Next question?
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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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No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it.
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We design our lives through the power of choices.
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Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?
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Whatever it is that calls us, that's our path. And as we walk that path, we have a chance to shine forth who we are. It affects other people around us.
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No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.
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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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Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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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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All of us are called by something in this world that attracts us. And it doesn't matter what it is - you can be an engine mechanic or an aviator or you can be someone who loves their flower garden or the world of commerce or sailboats.
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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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Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
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Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.
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