Richard Bach

Novelist

1936-06-23

Quotes by Richard Bach

• I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.

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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 roof

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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.

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• The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

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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.

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• How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.

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• My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

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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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• don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

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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.

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• Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

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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.

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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.

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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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• 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.

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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.

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• Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

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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.

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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.

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• Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

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