Richard Paul Evans Quotes
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I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.
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Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.
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The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.
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Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.
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Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.
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The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.
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When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.
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Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.
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Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.
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We are chained to that which we do not forgive
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Old friends are memories personified.
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Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.
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I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.
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We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.
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Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.
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The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.
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...the measure of life is revealed in the quality of our relationships: with God, our families, our fellow men." - A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans
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. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.
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Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.
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Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired effect. In other words, once we decide to have something, the mind unconsciously begins to create the reality necessary to bring to pass what we desire.
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But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.
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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.
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The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.
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The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.
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I have Tourettes syndrome.
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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.
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Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.
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I'm a humble guy, okay?
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If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?
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We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288
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