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Authors & Writing
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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
-Richard Bach
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Belief
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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
-Richard Bach
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Boredom
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
-Richard Bach
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Choice
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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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Decisions
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All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to tht moment.
-Richard Bach, Running from Saftey
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Desires
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
-Richard Bach
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Difficulty
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Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
-Richard Bach
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Duty
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How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't.
-Richard Bach
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Effort
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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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Expectation
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In order to win, you must expect to win.
-Richard Bach
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Family
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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
-Richard Bach
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Fate & Destiny
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Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.
-Richard Bach, Nothing by Chance: A Gypsy Pilot's Adventures in Modern America, 1969
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Friends
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...
-Richard Bach
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
-Richard Bach
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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
-Richard Bach
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Ideas
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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.
-Richard Bach
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Imagination
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To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
-Richard Bach
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We think, sometimes, there's not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests, enchanting deer and butterflies with her smile.What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure ...not only are they here-and-now, they're all that ever lived on earth!Our century, they've changed clothes, of course. Dragons wear government-costumes, today, and failure-suits and disaster-outfits. Society's demons screech, whirl down on us should we lift our eyes from the ground, dare we turn right at corners we've been told to turn left. So crafty have appearances become that princesses and knights can be hidden from each other, can be hidden from themselves.
-Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever, preface, 1984
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Last Words
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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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Learning
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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.
-Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever, 1984
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Life
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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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Love
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Real love stories never have endings.
-Richard Bach
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Potential
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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours
-Richard Bach
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A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... .this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.
-Richard Bach
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Questions
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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 awhile, and watch your answers change.
-Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, 1977
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Books by and about Richard Bach