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Richard Bach Quotes - Page 16

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What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the

What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the answer. If you haven't already, I'd suggest you want to find your soulmate, as soon as you can. Next question?

Soulmate, Crazy, Book

You are led, when you share your loves, to an enchanted life of inner happiness, which unsharing others cannot know.

Enchanted, Share, Inner Happiness

Richard Bach (2007). “Messiah’s Handbook”, p.131, Jaico Publishing House

I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.

War, Fire, Lines

Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

A drug for everything is madness. Legal or not, prescribed or not, over-counter under-counter bought for blood on street-corners-every pill separates us from knowing our own completion and from being taught by what's true.

Blood, Knowing, Drug

By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become.

Heart, Choices, World

The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty.

Beauty, Crazy, World

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

Mother, Children, Father

"There's No Such Place As Far Away". Book by Richard Bach, 1976.

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.

Thinking, Self, Bird

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?

Crazy, Silly, Ideas

It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.

Adventure, Flying, Lovely

Richard Bach (2009). “Hypnotizing Maria”, p.57, Hampton Roads Publishing

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

Simple, Flying, Rooms

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

Art, Airplane, Machines

Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.102, Dell

What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés, the same jagged dangers that have threatened us! If the idea stands up, I thought, it would be worth uncovering the typewriter! How Richard-years-ago would have wanted to know: What happens when we set off searching for a soulmate who doesn't exist, and find her?

Soulmate, Men, Typewriters

Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.

Mom, Mother, Son

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

Marriage, Land, Two

Heaven isnot a place, and it isnot atime.Heaven isbeing perfect.

Time, Perfect, Heaven

"Jonathan Livingston Seagull". Book by Richard Bach, 1970.

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

Choices, Statistics, Way

Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.

Home, Fame, States

Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.

Answers, Able, Way

Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.118, Delta

Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.

Education, What Matters, People

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.

Games, Patterns, Chess

Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being.

Design, Intention, States

Richard Bach (2009). “Hypnotizing Maria”, p.110, Hampton Roads Publishing

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

Air, Feelings, Sound

"Nothing by Chance". Book by Richard Bach, 1969.

Every word that judges value is circular. 'Good' is 'right' is 'proper' is 'just' is 'good'. But check the examples, and they're not circular at all: Every one says 'makes me happy'.

Judging, Example, Checks

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

Certain, Turns, Illusions Of Life

Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.51, Delta

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