“Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Gift
“I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Gift
“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, quote from The Gift
“We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Gift
“Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Gift
“Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Gift
“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, quote from The Gift
“I’ve come to know that what we want in life is the
greatest indication of who we really are.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Gift
“We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Gift
“There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Gift
“You know how before you buy a house you hire someone to come check it out and write a homebuyer's report? Someone should do that for husbands. Before you get married, you should have a complete inspection to find out what's broken, if it's fixable, and how much it will cost to repair.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Gift
“I once heard it said that everyone needs love-and if they're denied, they'll find it, or a reasonable substitute somewhere.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Gift
“To the thief, everyone’s a crook. To the liar, everyone’s a fraud. The curse of all sin is the mirror of false perception it traps us in.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Gift
“It seems that the most significant events in our lives happen while we’re worried about something else happening.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Gift
“Our thoughts are not arrows haphazardly shot out into the cosmos. They are boomerangs.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Gift
Richard Paul Evans
Born place: in Salt Lake City, Utah, The United States
Born date October 11, 1962
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“I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday.”
― Gary Chapman, quote from The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
“The banality of evil. It wasn’t the frothing madman. It was the conscientious us.”
― Louise Penny, quote from Glass Houses
“Lord Fellmotte was not a man. He was an ancient committee. A parliament of deathly rooks in a dying tree.”
― Frances Hardinge, quote from A Skinful of Shadows
“We live only in the present, in this fleet-footed moment. The rest is lost and behind us, or ahead of us and may never be found. Little of life we know, little the plot of earth on which we dwell, little the memory of even the most famous who have lived, and this memory itself is preserved by generations of little men, who know little about themselves and far less about those who died long ago.”
― Marcus Aurelius, quote from The Emperor's Handbook
“Suffering brings out the lowest, the most cowardly in man. There is a phase of suffering you reach beyond which you become a brute: beyond it you sell your soul—and worse, the souls of your friends—for a piece of bread, for some warmth, for a moment of oblivion, of sleep. Saints are those who die before the end of the story. The others, those who live out their destiny, no longer dare look at themselves in the mirror, afraid they may see their inner image: a monster laughing at unhappy women and at saints who are dead…”
― Elie Wiesel, quote from Day
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