Top 100 Richard Paul Evans Quotes
#1. Trauma has a way of indelibly linking the incidentals to the profound.
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#2. Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we are born to reach great heights
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#3. You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.
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#4. 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.
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#5. In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.
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#6. Snow is falling outside and all is peaceful and still. In such moments it is possible to believe that the world could still be good.
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#8. Take it out on whoever is close. Even people we love. Taylor's afraid for Michael and so she's upset. And since he isn't here, she took it out on you.
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#10. Nothing is more excruciating than waiting for the jury's verdict. Except, perhaps, hearing the jury's verdict.
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#12. Nowhere is our vision more distorted than when we turn it on ourselves.
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#13. 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.
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#14. Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.
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#15. We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak
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#16. Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.
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#17. We don't appreciate the things that come easy to us as much as we do the things we have to work for. I think that's true for love as well.
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#18. Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.
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#19. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest. Zeke
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#20. As you grow older, Michael, you'll learn an important lesson - that most people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time.
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#21. When faced with overwhelming loss and stress, a man must choose to live and find his own way through his broken heart.
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#22. A united people is a smoldering revolution. A divided people is a conquered people.
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#23. Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.
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#25. The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.
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#26. I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.
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#27. The Golden Rule is a two-edged sword. If some of us treated others as we treat ourselves, we would be jailed.
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#29. I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.
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#34. Kids don't come with owner's manuals. You have to figure each of them out, and by the time you do, they're gone.
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#35. Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.
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#36. The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.
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#37. There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.
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#38. Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.
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#39. The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.
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#40. The natives used to tie their enemies to the tree. The ants would eat them alive.
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#41. Did you know that rats can't vomit?" "Okay, enough. No more rat trivia.
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#42. It is not the ability to walk that pleases God, it is the desire to walk. The desire to do the right thing. The truest measure of a man is what he desires. The measure of that desire is seen in the actions that follow.
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#45. I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.
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#46. Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?
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#47. It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.
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#49. Bad memories can attach themselves like barnacles to the hulls of our lives. And, like barnacles, they have a disproportionately large amount of drag.
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#50. Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't - oppose the popular voice.
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#51. There is not only more to each soul's journey than we imagine, usually there is more than we can imagine.
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#52. It's been my experience that those with the toughest shells have the softest hearts
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#53. Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.
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#54. Sometimes the most profound experiences of our lives start with an act so simple and careless that we hardly think about it - like tossing a small stone that causes a massive avalanche.
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#55. The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.
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#56. Even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.
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#58. We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.
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#59. In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.
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#61. There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.
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#62. People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.
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#63. I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others ...
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#64. I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.
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#65. If you take away everything a man lives for, then what does he live for?
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#66. I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we're expecting them and oftentimes when we're not even paying attention.
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#67. Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.
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#69. The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn't work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It's like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won't work. That's why so many people get lost.
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#71. what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves. Elise
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#72. Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail
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#73. 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.
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#74. The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. --- Charles James's Diary
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#75. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure-or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that's where you will find success.
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#77. The first gift of Christmas was love. A parent's love. Pure as the first snows of Christmas. For God so loved His children that He sent His son, that someday we might return to Him.
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#78. It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.
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#79. People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.
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#80. It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.
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#81. It's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promis.
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#82. It is oftentimes a blessing to not know our limitations.
It's the only way to accomplish the impossible.
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#83. We are all in motion, always. Those who are not climbing towards something are descending toward nothing.
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#84. Where is the best place to hide a penny? It is in a jar of pennies.
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#85. 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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#86. What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
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#87. Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
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#88. I work at a retirement home. I'm a CNA."
"What's that?"
"It stands for Certified Nursing Assistant."
"That sounds important," I said.
She laughed. "If changing old people's diapers is important."
I thought for a moment, then said, "It is for the old people.
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#89. Unfortunately, large cities don't have a monopoly on loneliness. It can be found in small towns as well. Loneliness can be found everywhere there are people.
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#90. I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.
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#92. Our culture's quest to hide death behind a facade of denial has made fools and pretended immortals of us all. Perhaps it would be more helpful and liberating to begin each day by repeating the words of Crazy Horse, Today is a good day to die.
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#93. A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma ... It's about integrity
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#94. They are like pythons in the jungle. The smallest child can crush a python egg. But let the snake hatch and grow and the python with squeeze and devour the child.
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#95. Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?"
I thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up.
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#96. It is that to which we cling that drags us to the bottom of the abyss. There is real power at having nothing to lose.
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#97. People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.
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#98. The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.
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#99. Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way he can't do anything to you because you're a mile away and you've got his shoes.
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