Richard Paul Evans citations

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“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.”

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

“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.”

“The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from 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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“Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.”

“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.”