“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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“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so clear and vivid that it seemed like yesterday. Time was an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old. And how strange that in your mind you did not feel any older. You were the same person, but where had the years gone?”
― Helen Hooven Santmyer, quote from And Ladies of the Club
“So now, not only did my best friend leave, but the cheerleaders and their mindless followers assumed I was personally responsible for the petition (which, yeah, I was) and started being openly rude to me - shutting doors in my face, leaving nasty notes on my desk and in my locker, making fun of me when I could obviously hear them.
That's when I started keeping really quiet in class, and finding ways to show the other kids I wasn't afraid of them - like staring them straight in the eye when they looked at me, taking a step toward them when they talked to me, or walking right up to them and getting their personal space if I heard them say my name. Saying the meanest things I could think of whenever I had the chance - repeating rumors, embellishing them. I found out Kira Conroy had been arrested for shoplifting at the mall, and made sure everyone knew about it. The girl who burped in a boy's face during her first kiss, the girl who tripped and fell off the stage at the Miss Teen California pageant - I shared those stories the moment I heard them.
All's fair in war, right?
Suddenly I wasn't a nobody anymore.
I was a somebody.
Somebody everyone was afraid of.”
― Katie Alender, quote from Bad Girls Don't Die
“I'm in a weird-ass mood today, Doc. Wired up, mind all over the place, looking for answers, reasons something solid to cling to, something real, but just when I think I've got it figured out and neatly filed under fixed instead of fucked, turns out I'm still shattered, scattered, and battered. But you probably already knew that, didn't you?...You might not be able to help me. That makes me sad, but not for me. It makes me sad for you. It must be frustrating for a shrink to have a patient who's beyond fixing. That first shrink I saw when I got back to Clayton Falls told me no one is a lost cause, but I think that's bullshit. I think people can be so crushed, so broken, that they'll never be anything more than a fragment of a whole person. (129)”
― Chevy Stevens, quote from Still Missing
“I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from The Time of My Life
“Be who you are and don't allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality.”
― Demi Lovato, quote from Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year
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