Richard Paul Evans Quotes

“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood”

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

“Can you ever forgive me?
I already have.
How could you? I don't deserve it.
That's what makes it love.”

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

“Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.”

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

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

“We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside”

“… for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.”

“That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.”

“Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?”

“The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.”

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

“Books are the most tolerant of friends.”

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

“We are chained to that which we do not forgive”

“The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.”

“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.”

“Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.”

“It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.”

“Nothing heals the soul like chocolate… It's God's apology for broccoli.”

“Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.”

“Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.”

“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.”

“There are people I've yet to meet who are waiting for my path to intersect with theirs, so they can complete their own journeys. I don't know who or where they are, but I know for certain that they are waiting.”

“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.”

“Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. (pg. 161)”

“It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.”

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

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

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

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

“Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.”

“The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.”

“A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma… It's about integrity”

“sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having”

“In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.”

“We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.”

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

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

“The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.”

“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.
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“Only those who never step, never stumble.”

“If you remember the why, the how will work itself out.”

“Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.”

“Regret is the most tiresome of companions.”