Richard Bach's quote

Richard David Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer. He is widely known as the author of the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, among others. His books espouse his philosophy that our apparent physical limits and mortality are merely appearance. He claims to be a direct descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is noted for his love of flying and for his books related to air flight and flying in a metaphorical context. He has pursued flying as a hobby since the age of 17.
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. Illusions
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. Illusions
I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world. The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. 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.
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. Illusions
Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. Illusions
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Illusions
Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. Illusions
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
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. The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end. The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice? Jonathan Livingston Seagull
We teach best what we most need to learn. Illusions
In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy choice.
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats. Illusions
'Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.' Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teach is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
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.
You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are. Illusions