“Sometimes life is like that...Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.” — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Hard things don't always make life harder. It takes something hard to sharpen steel.” — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just one step of faith after another.” — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.” — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
...the measure of life is revealed in the quality of our relationships: with God, our families, our fellow men." - A Perfect… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“I've always believed that we don't choose the life we want, we choose the life we think we deserve. We self-sabotage as… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges.… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“ What if we all carried little timers that counted down the days of our lives? Maybe the timer's a bit… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“You're lucky your mother died,' she said. I didn't like that. 'I'm lucky my mother died?' Between sobs she said, 'Your mother… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“The human life cycle no less than evolves around the box; from the open-topped box called a bassinet, to the pine box… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“For most of my life I have thought of grace as a hope of a bright tomorrow in spite of the darkness… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Their life is a lie. I would rather live an honest life than an admired” — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Their life is a lie. I would rather live an honest life than an admired lie.” — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Grief is a powerful force that settles in the heart like a dark, heavy fog. It was familiar territory to me.” — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I've found that when someone is beautiful on the outside, but spiritually dark inside, all that outer beauty is just lipstick on a pig.… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“I'm no one important or famous, no matter. It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.” — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Some people in this world have stopped looking for beauty, then wonder why their lives are so ugly. Don't be like them. The ability… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
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