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“The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.”

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Walk

“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood”

Richard Paul Evans book The Christmas Box

Source: The Christmas Box

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Walk

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Christmas List

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Sunflower

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Prisoner of Cell 25

Richard Paul Evans Quotes about life

“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.”

Richard Paul Evans

Source: Grace

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Carousel

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

Richard Paul Evans book The Christmas Box

Source: The Christmas Box

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Sunflower

“… 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.”

Richard Paul Evans

Source: Finding Noel

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Locket

Richard Paul Evans Quotes about love

“Love is never convenient-and rarely painless”

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Sunflower

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Letter

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Walk

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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.”

Richard Paul Evans

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Gift

“Books are the most tolerant of friends.”

Richard Paul Evans

Richard Paul Evans Quotes

“I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.”

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Gift

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: Lost December

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Locket

“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.”

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Walk

“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.”

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Looking Glass

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: Finding Noel

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Walk

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

Richard Paul Evans

Variant: Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli
Source: The Sunflower

“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.”

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Prisoner of Cell 25

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Walk

“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.”

Richard Paul Evans

“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.”

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Walk

“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.”

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Sunflower

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: Promise Me

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

Richard Paul Evans

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Prisoner of Cell 25

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

Richard Paul Evans

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: A Step of Faith

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

Richard Paul Evans

“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.”

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Gift

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

Richard Paul Evans

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Letter

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: Finding Noel

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: Miles to Go

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Gift

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Letter

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Gift

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Walk

“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”

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Walk

“Only those who never step, never stumble.”

Richard Paul Evans

Source: Lost December

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: Hunt for Jade Dragon

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

Richard Paul Evans

Source: The Gift

“Regret is the most tiresome of companions.”

Richard Paul Evans

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