Richard Paul Evans - Life Quotes

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

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

Richard Paul Evans
Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

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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.

Richard Paul Evans
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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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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That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.

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

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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.

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

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The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

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As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.

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I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are

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We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.

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

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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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