Top 187 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Paul Evans - Page 3

There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters. THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104

Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves.

We humans...are seriously flawed. The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most for granted. Air. Water. Love. If you have someone to love, you are lucky. If they love you back, you're blessed. And if you waste the time you have to love them, you're a fool. -The Christmas List- p. 296

There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.

It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbor such hopelessness.

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

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

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.

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

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

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

I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

I've wondered why the famous congregate with each other. Perhaps it's to assure each other that they really are as important as they think they are.

As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off. As he neared the edge of the roof he prayed, "Save me, Lord, and I'll go to church every Sunday, I'll give up drinking, I'll be the best man this city has ever known." As he finished his prayer, a nail snagged onto his overalls and saved him. The man looked up to the sky and shouted, "Never mind, God. I took care of it myself." How true of us.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.

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

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

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

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

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

"Wait and see" is no easier now than it was as a child.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.

Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.

Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.

Life is not yours to take.

It's been said that every new beginning in some other beginning's end.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

You should always be careful of what you say in parting.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

...the measure of life is revealed in the quality of our relationships: with God, our families, our fellow men." - A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans

Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).

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.

When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

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

Procrastinatio n is the thief of dreams

Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.

It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons.

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

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

People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.

Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.

Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.