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One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.
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Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.
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Richard Bach |
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chr dshwrtryn khr dr jhn yn st khh prndh y r mtq`d khny, azd st?
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Richard Bach |
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Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.
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Richard Bach |
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Whatever enchants also guides and protects.
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Richard Bach |
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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!
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Richard Bach |
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Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?
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life
love
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Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.
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Richard Bach |
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What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.
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Richard Bach |
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For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
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Richard Bach |
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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!
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A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. "Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe..."
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Richard Bach |
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Has it ever happened, you've seen a striking film, beautifully written and acted and photographed, that you walk out of the theater glad to be a human being and you say to yourself I hope they make a lot of money from that? I hope the actors, I hope the director earns a million dollars for what they've done, what they've given me tonight? And you go back and see the movie again and you're happy to be a tiny part of the system that is reward..
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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....
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Richard Bach |
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Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
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Richard Bach |
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Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again
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Richard Bach |
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It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.
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Richard Bach |
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Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?
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Richard Bach |
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The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves.
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Richard Bach |
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.
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Richard Bach |
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Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one.
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Richard Bach |
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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.
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If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.
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inspirational
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Si nuestra amistad depende de cosas como el espacio y el tiempo, entonces, cuando por fin superemos el espacio y el tiempo, habremos destruido nuestra propia hermandad! Pero supera el espacio, y nos quedara solo un Aqui. Supera el tiempo, y nos quedara solo un Ahora. Y entre el Aqui y el Ahora, ?no crees que podremos volver a vernos un par de veces?
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life-lessons
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Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.
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Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn't agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?
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Richard Bach |
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What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.
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Richard Bach |
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And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand "coincidences" and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance."
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But one creature said at last, "I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom."
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trust
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I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.
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truth
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You gave your life to become the person you are right now Was it worth it?
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Richard Bach |
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Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.
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life
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Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
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Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite life, choosing its playground; protect that the world you know exists with your consent and for your own good reasons; protect that your purpose and mission is to shine love in your own playful way, in the moments you decide will be most dramatic.
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My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
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freedom
separation
home
plane
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Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that's all right. You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds, remember.
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Richard Bach |
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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.
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Richard Bach |
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If we don't accept any common beliefs, we can't exist in spacetime. But when we don't believe in age, at least we don't have to die because our numbers change. [...] When you don't believe in birthdays, the idea of aging turns a little foreign to you. You don't fall into trauma over your sixteenth birthday or your thirtieth or the big Five-Oh or the deadly Century. You measure your life by what you learn, not by counting how many calendars ..
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Richard Bach |
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It's okay is a cosmic truth...It's okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn't bother to pay the fare.
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Richard Bach |
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I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it's not finished yet.
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Richard Bach |
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We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, b..
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Richard Bach |
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Like attracts like. It'll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.
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Richard Bach |
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How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.
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nature
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Le paradis, c'est simplement d'etre soi-meme parfait.
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