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American spiritual writer (born 1936)

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Richard Bach (born 23 June 1936) is an American writer, widely known as the author of some of the 1970s' biggest sellers, including Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977). Most of Bach's books have been semi-autobiographical, using actual or fictionalized events from his life to illustrate his philosophy, that our apparent physical limits and mortality are merely appearance.

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Birth Name: Richard David Bach

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"Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise . . . Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer!" — -Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories

The original sin is to limit the Is. —Don't.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't.

چرا دشوارترین کار در جهان این است که پرنده ای را متقاعد کنی، آزاد است؟

The gull sees farthest who flies highest.

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

Това е познанието:не дали ще изгубим играта,а по
какъв начин ще приемем загубата,какво ще научим от нея,какъв опит ще извлечем от следващите игри.Колкото и странно да ни се струва загубата е всъщност печалба.”(Мост през вечността)

К ЧЕРТУ твою Совершенную Женщину! Она – выдуманная тобой, утыканная поддельными перьями всевозможных цветов курица весом с полтонны, которой никогда не взлететь! Все, что она может, – это бегать туда сюда, хлопать крыльями и пронзительно кудахтать, но никогда, никогда она не сможет оторваться от земли, никогда не сможет запеть. Ты, которого бросает в ужас при одной мысли о свадьбе, знаешь ли ты, что женат на этом чучеле?

Я обвенчался с идеей, которая оказалась неверной.

All the people, all the events in your life are put there for a reason. What you choose to do with them is up to you

If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it’s condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don’t have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy choice.

Imagination is an old soul.

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.

Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.