Top 100 Richard Paul Evans Quotes
#1. 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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#2. I promote reading. I travel anywhere any time. In my books the indivuals face fears, issues, love, friendships, and are reminded qently that God is near! Great reads by Linda Green, Rosemary barkes,Liz Thompson, Richard Paul Evans
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#3. I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you.
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#4. I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.
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#6. Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.
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#7. Grief isn't a luxury; it's an appropriate response to loss. You don't just will it away. If you allow it to run its course, it will fade with time, but if you ignore it or pretend it doesn't exist, it only gets worse.
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#10. Trauma has a way of indelibly linking the incidentals to the profound.
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#11. Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we are born to reach great heights
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#12. I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.
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#14. 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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#15. Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
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#16. The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.
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#17. In the end, it is not by knowledge that we make our journeys but by hope and faith: hope that our walk will be worthy of our steps and faith that we are going somewhere. And only when we come to the end of our journeys do we truly understand that every step of the way we were walking on water.
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#18. 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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#19. In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.
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#20. I'm glad I have you for my boyfriend." "Me too," I said. "Sometimes I have to pinch myself." She pinched my arm and smiled. "You're so cute.
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#21. The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.
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#22. 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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#25. 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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#27. Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.
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#30. I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.
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#32. Nothing is more excruciating than waiting for the jury's verdict. Except, perhaps, hearing the jury's verdict.
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#33. Love is full of pain and mistakes. That's what makes it interesting and that's why we explore relationships in literature. That whole 'love is never having to say you're sorry' crap is just that, crap. Love is learning how to say you're sorry.
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#35. We do not succeed in spite of our obstacles and challenges. We succeed precisely because of them.
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#36. Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.
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#38. Sometimes the most whole people are those who come from the most broken circumstances.
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#39. Nowhere is our vision more distorted than when we turn it on ourselves.
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#42. 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.
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#43. Geography is my strong subject," Ostin said. "Everything is your strong subject," Taylor said.
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#44. Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.
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#45. Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way
rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.
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#46. 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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#48. Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.
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#49. What the masses don't realize is that they're looking for a shepherd. Those who don't think they can be influenced or call themselves 'independent thinkers' are usually the biggest conformists of all - and the easiest to turn. Why do you think cults prey on college students? Easy picking.
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#51. I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.
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#52. No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.
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#53. In most cases, true greatness is a silent and lonely affair, unaccompanied by the trumpeted fanfare of acclaim.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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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#56. Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.
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#57. Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?
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#59. 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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#60. There are people whom we've never met in person yet feel closer to than those we brush up against in real life.
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#62. Though adversity is the fertile soil in which the human spirit best grows, we loathe it still. I do not see how it can be otherwise, for no rational being seeks out pain and misfortune. Still, I cannot help but wonder if it is not somehow wrong to enjoy the fruit but curse the tree.
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#64. 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.
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#67. Magnetism is not like in the superhero movies. I couldn't pull a car toward myself, because a car weighs more than I do. I just ended up pulling myself to the car.
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#68. Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
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#69. 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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#70. Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.
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#71. 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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#72. The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.
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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. Sometimes life is like that ... Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.
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#77. A united people is a smoldering revolution. A divided people is a conquered people.
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#78. Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.
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#79. Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.
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#82. 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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#83. In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.
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#84. The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.
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#85. 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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#87. We all got things under our skin. Everybody does. Like a glass sliver. Can't see nothin' there, but it works its way in deeper and gets to festerin' and hurts so that we're ready to just cut the whole thing out.
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#88. Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.
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#89. 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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#90. My mother always said that if you do the right thing, the universe comes to your aid,
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#92. Suppose we as children are selfish by nature, judging our parents in the context not of their worlds and challenges but of our worlds and how they meet our needs. Even as we mature we rarely think of them as having been young like us.
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#93. Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. (pg. 161)
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#94. I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.
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#97. 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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#98. It takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.
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