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You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?

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
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I don't think creativity is mine to maintain. It automatically comes when we declare that I am an expression of life, and life will express itself through me in the most playful and wonderful of ways, if I let it.
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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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There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
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Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else.
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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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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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Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?
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Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.
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It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?
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We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures we are the otters of the universe.
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Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?
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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
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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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Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.
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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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We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.
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I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.
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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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