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IBN ARABI Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
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RICHARD BACH I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
RICHARD BACH Learning is finding out what you already know.
RICHARD BACH Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
RICHARD BACH Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
RICHARD BACH If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
RICHARD BACH You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
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RICHARD BACH The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpilla...
RICHARD BACH Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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EDWARD BACH There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because y...
RICHARD BACH Learning is finding out what you already know -Richard Bach.
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RICHARD BACH Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is ...
RICHARD BACH Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
RICHARD BACH Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...
RICHARD BACH Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will kno...
RICHARD BACH Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already t...
RICHARD BACH Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
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RICHARD BACH The way to avoid responsibility is to say, I've got responsibilities.
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RICHARD BACH The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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RICHARD BACH You teach best what you most need to learn.
RICHARD BACH Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
RICHARD BACH Real love stories never have endings.
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RICHARD BACH How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't.
RICHARD BACH Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
RICHARD BACH Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
RICHARD BACH All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy ...
RICHARD BACH That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've chan...
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RICHARD BACH Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, ...
RICHARD BACH Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
RICHARD BACH In order to win, you must expect to win.
RICHARD BACH The simplest questions are the most profound.
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Where is your home?
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RICHARD BACH To the timid soul, nothing is possible.
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RICHARD BACH An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevert...
RICHARD BACH Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
RICHARD BACH A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
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RICHARD BACH Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.
RICHARD BACH Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you cho...
RICHARD BACH Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -Richard Bach.
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RICHARD BACH In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
RICHARD BACH There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster
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RICHARD BACH Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.
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RICHARD BACH There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary i...
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RICHARD BACH Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
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RICHARD BACH The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's...
RICHARD BACH What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
RICHARD BACH Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.
SEBASTIAN BACH To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
RICHARD BACH Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
RICHARD BACH I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.
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KING BACH I'm theatrically trained. Before Vine, before any of the social media, I was an actor. I was goi...
KING BACH To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
RICHARD BACH I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.
SEBASTIAN BACH Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
RICHARD BACH My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want t...
JILLIAN BACH I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Too...
SEBASTIAN BACH I used to live in Canada. It's a beautiful country with a lot of different kind of topographic r...
SEBASTIAN BACH Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There...
SEBASTIAN BACH We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we ...
RICHARD BACH The simplest things are often the truest.
RICHARD BACH Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.
SEBASTIAN BACH Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.
RICHARD BACH Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choo...
RICHARD BACH Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anythin...
RICHARD BACH There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.
RICHARD BACH Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understand...
RICHARD BACH Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
RICHARD BACH The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. ...
RICHARD BACH True love stories never have endings
RICHARD BACH The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
RICHARD BACH Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
RICHARD BACH The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others lif...
RICHARD BACH Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours.
RICHARD BACH The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's lif...
RICHARD BACH Learning is finding out what you already know
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RICHARD BACH Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.
RICHARD BACH Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.
RICHARD BACH If you love something, set it free; if it comes back, it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
RICHARD BACH Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from th...
RICHARD BACH Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or...
RICHARD BACH I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record de...
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ROBERT BACH Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and ne...
EDWARD BACH Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated e...
EDWARD BACH If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are ...
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KING BACH Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
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RICHARD BACH Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
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RICHARD BACH Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
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RICHARD BACH If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it...
RICHARD BACH If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
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RICHARD BACH You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.
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KING BACH I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.
SEBASTIAN BACH It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.
SEBASTIAN BACH Nobody wants a fat lead singer.
SEBASTIAN BACH Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.
JOHN BACH Argue for your limitations, and you get to keep them.
RICHARD BACH The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
RICHARD BACH Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.
RICHARD BACH There's always some aftermath, good and bad, makes-me-happy or makes-me-unhappy, for anything we cho...
RICHARD BACH Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stoo...
RICHARD BACH Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world - even if what is p...
RICHARD BACH Here is a test to find if your mission on Earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.
RICHARD BACH Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
RICHARD BACH Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it.
RICHARD BACH The way to avoid responsibility is to say, ''I've got responsibilities.''
RICHARD BACH Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
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RICHARD BACH Every word that judges value is circular. 'Good' is 'right' is 'proper' is 'just' is 'good'. But che...
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RICHARD BACH What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
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EDWARD BACH Never shame your comrades by letting their death get you killed
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And step into the darkness of the unk...
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RICHARD BACH To be handed a lot of money is to be handed a glass sword, blade first.
R. BACH Get this in mind early: We never grow up.
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And step into the darkness of the unkn...
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