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• It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy.
  Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost ....
• 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....
• That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games.
  Losing, in a curious way, is winning....
• Do you know what I learned from you? I learned what is possible, and now I must hold out for what I thought we had.
  I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me....
• 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.
  -- Richard Bach, Thoughts of Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Foreve...
• Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence.
  Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love....
• Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.
  -- Richard Bach, Thoughts of Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Foreve...
• There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to lea
  whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go....
• There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to lea
  whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go....