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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.Richard Bach
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.Richard Bach
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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.Richard Bach
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You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.Richard Bach
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.Richard Bach
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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.Richard Bach
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Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.Richard Bach
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A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.Richard Bach
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The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.Richard Bach
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.Richard Bach
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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 a butterfly.Richard Bach
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Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.Richard Bach
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Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.Richard Bach
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If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.Richard Bach
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Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.Richard Bach
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Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?Richard Bach
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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.Richard Bach
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Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.Richard Bach
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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.Richard Bach
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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.Richard Bach
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Whatever harm I would do to another, I shall do first to myself. As I respect and am kind to myself, so shall I respect and be kind to peers, to elders, to kits. I claim for others the freedom to live as they wish, to think and believe as they will. I claim that freedom for myself. I shall make each choice and live each day to my highest sense of right.Richard Bach
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We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.Richard Bach
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Get this in mind early: We never grow up.Richard Bach
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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?Richard Bach
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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.Richard Bach
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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.Richard Bach
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Don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?Richard Bach
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My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.Richard Bach
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How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.Richard Bach
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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.Richard Bach
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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…Richard Bach
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The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.Richard Bach
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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.Richard Bach
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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 famiy grow up under the same roofRichard Bach
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I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.Richard Bach
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In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.Richard Bach
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Like attracts like. It'll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.Richard Bach
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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.Richard Bach
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But one creature said at last, "I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.Richard Bach
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Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.Richard Bach
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You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.Richard Bach
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We reviewed the ways we had to bring customers: Method A, flying aerobatics at the edge of town. Method B, the parachute jump. Then we began experimenting with Method C. There is a principle that says if you lay out a lonely solitaire game in the center of the wilderness, someone will soon come along to look over your shoulder and tell you how to play your cards. This was the principle of Method C. We unrolled our sleeping bags and stretched out under the wing, completely uncaring.Richard Bach
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The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's IntimacyRichard Bach
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What matters most:" What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh." Wind, Sand and Stars.Richard Bach
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Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise. .. Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer! "--- Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other StoriesRichard Bach
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Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.Richard Bach
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No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.Richard Bach
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The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've gotresponsibilities.Richard Bach
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If you argue for your limitations they are yoursRichard Bach
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Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.Richard Bach
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go....Richard Bach
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We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.Richard Bach
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What the caterpillar calls a tragedy the Master calls a butterfly.Richard Bach
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves no matter how unpleasant are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.Richard Bach
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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?Richard Bach
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What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.Richard Bach
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Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it.Richard Bach
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The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.Richard Bach
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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.Richard Bach
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.Richard Bach
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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.Richard Bach
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.Richard Bach
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The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.Richard Bach
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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.Richard Bach
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True love stories never have endings.Richard Bach
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.Richard Bach
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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.Richard Bach
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.Richard Bach
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Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!Richard Bach
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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.Richard Bach
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.Richard Bach
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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.Richard Bach
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Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.Richard Bach
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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.Richard Bach
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.Richard Bach
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You teach best what you most need to learn.Richard Bach
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Learning is finding out what you already know.Richard Bach
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One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.Richard Bach
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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.Richard Bach
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.Richard Bach
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.Richard Bach
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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.Richard Bach