Richard Paul Evans Quotes

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.

There are people I've yet to meet who are waiting for my path to intersect with theirs, so they can complete their own journeys. I don't know who or where they are, but I know for certain that they are waiting.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.

A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity

I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing. The Chinese culture has survived for more than five thousand years in part because the Chinese have embraced the same language and culture. I hope I am wrong about this, and that the flame is still on beneath the great American melting pot. Americans need each other, and a house divided, no matter the color of its occupants, is still divided. And divided we all fall.

We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

The first step of a journey is always the longest.

The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.

I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils sporting horns and carrying pitchforks. To me, angel wings are merely symbolic of their role as divine messengers.

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

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 the most dysfunctional.

Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.

I'm a humble guy, okay?

...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow pulled from his own bow. It is the single universal trait which the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips. Believe as if your life depended upon it, for indeed it does.

The depth of love is revealed in its departure.

Life is not yours to take.

The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.

There can be no joy without gratitude.