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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.

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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Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.
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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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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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Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again
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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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Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.
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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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I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.
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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
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Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
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Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
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In order to win, you must expect to win.
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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
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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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Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.
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The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.
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We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.
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Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.
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Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
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