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
“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
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
“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
As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging… — 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
...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
“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
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
Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare. — 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
“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
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
“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
The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life. — 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
“ 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
That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Life's greatest philosophy is not handed down in stoic texts and dusty tomes, but lived, in each breath and act of human… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds. — 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
