“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.”

— Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, 1977

About Richard Bach

Born 1936

American author of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" and "Illusions".

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”

“An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

“Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.”

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

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“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”