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Richard Bach Biography

Richard David Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer. Bach is widely known as the author of some 1970s best-sellers, including Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977). Bach has written numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including One: A Novel (1989) and Out of My Mind (1999).

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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?

Hands, Long, Doe, Take, Somebody, Rattlesnake

Every problem in your life carries a gift inside it.

Carrie, Carries, Gift, Life, Problem

Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare writer who comes alive on a page does it by giving of himself, by writing of meanings, and not just of fact or of things that have happened to him. The writers of flight who have done this are usually found together in a special section on private bookshelves.

Airplane, Aviation, Giving, Writer, Writing

Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.

Look, Looks, Mirror, Mirrors, Thing, Who We Are

What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication.

Airplane, Basically, Communication, Love, Two

In the highest sense, we are all creatures of light. And I have a very difficult time talking with people who are cynical about the world. "The world is no damn good, and we're all animals," and that kind of thing. Well, I'm an animal.

Animal, Animals, Kind, Light, People, Talking

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

Answers, Ask, Education, Giving, Know, Thinking

He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form. "Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?" "The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.

Simple, Law, Voice, Superstition, Gull, Set

At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.

Challenge, Men, Past, Problems, Simple, Thought

When we're born on this planet, we're taught to believe that what we see is real. But as we grow in understanding, we recognize first that we've been hypnotized by that reaching, and second that it's within our power to de-hypnotize ourselves. And as we do that, the illusion appears to change, to come in harmony with what we most value. If we most value love, we will begin to see more and more love and joy and adventure-creative expressions of life shimmering everywhere around us.

Adventure, Believe, Illusion, Life, Real, Shimmering

Part One: I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. Part Two: Everybody else is free to do whatever they feel like doing, for a living. Part Three: Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.

Two, Three, Answers, Respond, Live, World

Hate is love without enough data.

Data, Enough, Hate, Love

Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

Cookies, Crumb, Everything, Morning, Table, Tables

Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.

Adventure, Dive, Life, Spent, Sun, Swimming

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.

Begin, Block, Drag, Pound, Sculpture, Tools

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

Across, Gold, Morning, Sea, Sparkled

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Light, Jewels, Color, Jewel, Hold

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

Being Strong, Beliefs, Believe, Make, Stronger, Winning

One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.

Believe, Future, Inevitable, Way

I'm utterly convinced of the One-ness of Love and us as its perfect reflection. I am absolutely convinced that the world around us is a world of appearances and anyone who wants to can practice it. Change your thought and your environment will change. It's not instantaneous and sometimes we have to work very hard to make what we want happen. Working hard and holding that thought, it will change.

Love, Perfect, Practice, Reflection

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