Richard Paul Evans quotes

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence. (Richard Paul Evans)
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.
Richard Paul Evans
Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.
Richard Paul Evans
My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.
Richard Paul Evans
Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.
Richard Paul Evans
The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.
Richard Paul Evans
Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.
Richard Paul Evans
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.
Richard Paul Evans
Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. (pg. 161)
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
Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it? (Richard Paul Evans)
So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.
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
The universe is a trillion, trillion threads moving in seemingly unrelated directions. Yet when you look at them together, they create a remarkable tapestry.
Richard Paul Evans
What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
Richard Paul Evans
... even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.
Richard Paul Evans
That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.
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
The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.
Richard Paul Evans
sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having.
Richard Paul Evans
In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing. (Richard Paul Evans)
We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.
Richard Paul Evans
The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.
Richard Paul Evans
Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.
Richard Paul Evans
Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.
Richard Paul Evans