Richard Bach (23rd June 1936) is an American author and pilot, responsible for some of the best selling books of the 1970s. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Bach served in the United States Navy Reserve and the New Jersey Air National Guard’s Fighter Wing as a pilot before becoming an author.
During his time there he was also a contributing editor for Flying magazine and Avian, before finally writing his first novel Jonathan Livingstone Seagull in 1970. Bach went on to have a full literary career, writing many fiction and nonfiction books, most of which were somehow based around flying.
Today we’re marking the day with some of our favourite Richard Bach quotes:
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
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