Richard David Bach is an American pilot as well as author.
Bach started at the age of 17 years to fly. A year later he started educating as a pilot in the U.S. Flying Force. He after that worked at air shows and also as a trip teacher.
Along with his activities, he published essays on the fly, while he handles the concern is not just practically, but psychologically and also directly.
His first book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull by 1970, with a total circulation of over five million copies worldwide success and also is now considered a cult book.
One can not yet lower Bach's full service this publication. In his later stories, he is not only progressively intensively so, what is the attraction of flying as well as exactly how it impacts him, but is based upon flying experience also in a totally various part esoteric problems about the power of hypnotherapy on the reality in "The pilot".
Our collection contains 48 quotes who is written / told by Richard, under the main topics: Happiness - Love - Life - Nature - Work.
"Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives"
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were"
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't"
"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there"
"Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know"
"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"
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours"
"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose"
"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit"
"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work"
"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder"
"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"
"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection"
"It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost"
"In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea"
"In order to win, you must expect to win"
"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice"
"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem"
"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"
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly"
"True love stories never have endings"
"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived"
"You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however"
"Learning is finding out what you already know"
"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"
"Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof"
"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years"
"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear"
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life"
"Get this in mind early: We never grow up"
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands"
"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"
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness"
"Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them"
"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly"
"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"
"Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere"
"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"
"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!"
"Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them"
"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it"
"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"
"The simplest things are often the truest"
"Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't"
"If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim"
"I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me"
"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?"
"I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service"
