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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice it."
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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?
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
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Don't be dismayed by 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.
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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.
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Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
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Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
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Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
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Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
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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.
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I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
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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.
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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.
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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
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In order to win, you must expect to win.
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In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
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Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
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Learning is finding out what you already know.
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
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Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
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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.
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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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The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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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.
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
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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.
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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.
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You teach best what you most need to learn.
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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Biography

Richard Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer. He has authored numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970), Illusions (1977), One (1989), and Out of My Mind (1999). Most of his books have been semi-autobiographical, using actual or fictionalized events from his life to illustrate his philosophy.

Bach was born in Oak Park, Illinois to Roland Robert and Ruth Helen (Shaw) Bach; he is a distant descendant of composer Johann Sebastian Bach. He attended Long Beach State College (now California State University, Long Beach) in 1955.

Bach was once an Air Force reserve pilot, and he later became a barnstormer. Nearly all of his books involve flight in some way, from the early stories which are straightforwardly about flying aircraft to his later works in which flight is a complex philosophical metaphor. Bach had a huge success with Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a fable about a seagull who flew for the sake of flying rather than merely to catch food. Though his later books have not matched its popularity, his work has retained a dedicated fan base.

Many of his later books contain New Age philosophy and wisdom.

Bach appeared online in the early 1990s in a section of his own at Compuserve, and answered all e-mails personally until he received too many to deal with. He also had his own website, which has since disappeared.

Bach had six children with his first wife. His second wife was actress Leslie Parrish, whom he met during the shooting of the movie Jonathan Livingston Seagull in 1973 and married in 1981; The Bridge Across Forever is based on their courtship. They are now divorced.

Works

*Stranger to the Ground (1963)
*Biplane (1966)
*Nothing by Chance (1969)
*Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
*A Gift of Wings (1974)
*There's No Such Place As Far Away (1976)
*Illusions (1977)
*The Bridge Across Forever (1984)
*One (1988)
*Running from Safety (1994)
*Out of My Mind (1999)
*The Ferret Chronicles:
**Air Ferrets Aloft (2002)
**Rescue Ferrets at Sea (2002)
**Writer Ferrets: Chasing the Muse (2002)
**Rancher Ferrets on the Range (2003)
*The Last War (2003)
*Flying (2003)
*Messiah's Handbook (2004)

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