Richard Paul Evans Quotes - Page 2

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.

People are like books, unknown until they are opened.

There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven’t time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else’s story, we come to understand our own.

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.

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Love is never convenient-and rarely painless

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 plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours.

Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli

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.

Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

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

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

The strength of a friendship can be measured by the weight of the burden it's willing to share. (If you want to test this just ask someone to help you move.)

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.