“Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Sunflower
“Love is never convenient-and rarely painless”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Sunflower
“Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Sunflower
“We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Sunflower
“We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Sunflower
“I don't want to go to Peru."
How do you know? You've never been there."
I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Sunflower
“such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Sunflower
“Днес чух една американска тийнейджърка да казва, че е също толкова ощетена, колкото и нашите деца, защото родителите й можели да й купят само стара кола. Няма по бедни от онези, които не осъзнават изобилието на своя живот.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Sunflower
“The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Sunflower
“As much as I have schemed and planned to the contrary, the most central experinces of my life have all been accidents.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Sunflower
Richard Paul Evans
Born place: in Salt Lake City, Utah, The United States
Born date October 11, 1962
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“Godly fear,” wrote John Bunyan, flows from a sense of the love and kindness of God to the soul. Where there is no sense of hope of the kindness and mercy of God by Jesus Christ, there can be none of this fear, but rather wrath and despair, which produces a fear that is … devilish; … but godly fear flows from a sense of hope of mercy from God by Jesus Christ.2”
― Jerry Bridges, quote from The Joy of Fearing God
“And what if you could go back in time and take all those hours of sorrow and insanity and replace them with something better?”
― Rebecca McNutt, quote from Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series
“Give me the setting sun, and I’ll be a richer man than most. For never have I seen gold like that which glows above the earth. Give me the night sky, and I’ll be the richest man for sure. For never have I seen diamonds like those that dance beside the moon.”
― Rachel Morgan, quote from The Faerie Prince
“Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. ”
― James Allen, quote from As a Man Thinketh: You Are Literally What You Think
“Am invatat in munca mea, ca se tem cel mai mult de moarte cei care se apropie de ea avand prea multa viata netraita in ei. Cel mai bine este sa ne folosim toata viata. Sa nu-i lasam mortii decat drojdiile, nimic altceva decat un castel ars pana in temelii.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, quote from Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
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