Richard Paul Evans Quotes
Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?
We love those whom we serve (p. 26)
Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.
I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.
Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.
I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others...
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
My mom used to say that faith and fear can't exist simultaneously in the mind any more than light and dark can exist simultaneously in the same room.
I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.
The universe is a trillion, trillion threads moving in seemingly unrelated directions. Yet when you look at them together, they create a remarkable tapestry.
There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.
Truth is patient. It can afford to be for eventually it will have its way.
I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.
Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.
The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.
A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity
Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future, " he said.
The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.
It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.
Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?"I thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up.
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.
I don't want to go to Peru."How do you know? You've never been there."I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.
All that's required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.
I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.
There are dreams that are meant to be shared and dreams to be kept hidden in our hearts. It's sometimes difficult to know which is which.
Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage
Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.
To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.
Oftentimes it's the smallest, seemingly inconsequential acts that make the biggest differences in our lives.
It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk - Chapter 19, Page 122
I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to myself.
The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but its echo endures much longer.
The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.
I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.
