Richard Paul Evans Quotes

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People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

Richard Paul Evans
Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

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The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

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People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.

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Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.

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Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.

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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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Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

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"You know, I've wondered if it's more painful to lose someone you love to death or to lose someone you love because she no longer loves you back." "I don't know," I said. "On the surface, it seems an easy question. It should be so much easier to lose someone who doesn't love you, because why would you want to be with someone who doesn't want you? But rejection's not an east road. A part of you always wonders what makes you so unlovable."

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Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.

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To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

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Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

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We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

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The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

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Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.

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Everyone has problems. It's how you choose to deal with them. Some people choose to be whiners some choose to be winners. Some choose to be victims some choose to be victors.

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We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.

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The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.

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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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Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.

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We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours.

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In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

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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.

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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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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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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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No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.

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

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

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

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