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Richard Bach Quotes - Page 15

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Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

Fire, Perfection, Littles

When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.

Song, Individual, Millions

"Richard Bach's Curious Lives". Interview with Cathleen Hulbert, www.selfgrowth.com.

What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication.

Communication, Airplane, Two

Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.

Song, Years, Giving

Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!

Ignorance, Fishing, Skills

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

Years, Two, Imagination

Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.113, Delta

Some religions believe that there's a hierarchy, that you don't have a connection, but you must go through the shaman or the priest or whoever the religious leader is. And that's what surprises me, that some people who find a huge value in these kinds of systems also seem to enjoy ILLUSIONS. I can't figure it out.

Religious, Believe, People

Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."

Book, Important, Mail

Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

If we believe that we're separated from someone, though they stand in the same room with us, we're separated. If we believe that we're together, if we believe that they are with us, if we listen through our inner senses, there's a chance we'll hear.

Believe, Together, Rooms

Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and love!

Fun, Odds, Sea

"The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.

There is a sense of oneness that from time to time I'm aware of in my life. Certainly not all the time, and there are times when I get frightened and when I get upset. But at the best of times, it's a personal oneness.

Oneness, Upset, Frightened

An Interview with Richard Bach by Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

Years, Choices, Different

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

Reading, Book, Knives

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.

Real, Long, Luck

Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?

Dream, Children, Lucky

The conversation between Fletcher and Jonathan Livingston Seagull is centered on why some have achieved more than others . . . are they divine . . . ahead of their times . . . Fletcher says, Well, this kind of flying has always been here to be learned by anybody who wanted to discover it; that's got nothing to do with time. We're ahead of the fashion, maybe. Ahead of the way most gulls fly. Poor Fletch. Don't you believe what your eyes are telling you? All they show is limitations. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Fashion, Time, Believe

Passionately obsessed by anything we love - an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love.

Fear, Magic, Doubt

He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form. "Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?" "The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.

Simple, Law, Voice

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.

Change, Writing, Political

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

Airplane, Men, Flying

Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.209, Dell

We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks.

Night, Years, Yesterday

Those who win are those who think they can.

Positive, Attitude, Winning

Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!

Country, Evil, Parent

I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.

Air, Sky, Wings

He moves not through distance, but through the ranges of satisfaction that come from hauling himself up into the air with complete and utter control; from knowing himself and knowing his airplane so well that he can come somewhere close to touching, in his own special and solitary way, that thing that is called perfection.

Distance, Moving, Airplane

Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.209, Dell

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