Richard Paul Evans Quotes

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

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.

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

Everyone has problems. It's how you choose to deal with them. Some people choose to be whiners some choose to be winners. Some choose to be victims some choose to be victors.

Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.

There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.

Old friends are memories personified.

Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.

People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

The universe is a trillion, trillion threads moving in seemingly unrelated directions. Yet when you look at them together, they create a remarkable tapestry.

We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

Love is never convenient-and rarely painless

Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.

The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.