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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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Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however...

An author is a writer who didn't give up.

A person gets used to being alone, but break it just for a day and you have to get used to it again, all over from the beginning.

He's changing. Every day more remote, protected, distant. He builds fests now for the soulmate he hasn't found, bricking wall and maze and mountain fortress, dares her to find him at the hidden center of them all Here's an A in self-protection from the one in the world he might love and who might someday love him.

The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

Are you saying I can fly?” “I say you are free.

you have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way. It is the Law of the Great Gull, the Law that Is.

-Peki bundan sonra ne olacak? Nereye gidiyoruz? Cennet diye bir yer yok mu?
-Hayır Jonathan öyle bir yer yok. O ne bir yer, ne de bir zaman. Cennet, kendinde kusursuzluğu bulmaktır.

This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one’s self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.

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

Are you telling me that even though it’s changing every second, the sky is always a perfect sky?

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

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. We think sometimes that ours is an age past frontiers, past adventures. Destiny, it's way over the horizon; glowing shadows galloped past long ago, and gone. What a pleasure to be wrong.

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