Richard Paul Evans Quotes

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The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.

Richard Paul Evans
Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst

Richard Paul Evans
Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

Richard Paul Evans
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.

Richard Paul Evans
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.

Richard Paul Evans
What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

Richard Paul Evans
Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?

Richard Paul Evans
Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

Richard Paul Evans
I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

Richard Paul Evans
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.

Richard Paul Evans
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
It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters.

Richard Paul Evans
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.

Richard Paul Evans
From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

Richard Paul Evans
If you passed me walking home from school, you probably wouldn't even notice me. That's because I'm just a kid like you. I go to school like you. I get bullied like you. Unlike you, I live in Idaho. Don't ask me what state Idaho is in––news flash––Idaho IS a state.

Richard Paul Evans
Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

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
Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

Richard Paul Evans
To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

Richard Paul Evans
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.

Richard Paul Evans
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
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
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
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.

Richard Paul Evans
Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

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
There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

Richard Paul Evans