Richard Paul Evans Quotes - Page 3

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others.

...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

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

. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

The first step of a journey is always the longest.

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

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.

Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion-one of loyalty and divine friendship. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time- while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

"You know, I've wondered if it's more painful to lose someone you love to death or to lose someone you love because she no longer loves you back." "I don't know," I said. "On the surface, it seems an easy question. It should be so much easier to lose someone who doesn't love you, because why would you want to be with someone who doesn't want you? But rejection's not an east road. A part of you always wonders what makes you so unlovable."

When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.

You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.

People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

If you passed me walking home from school, you probably wouldn't even notice me. That's because I'm just a kid like you. I go to school like you. I get bullied like you. Unlike you, I live in Idaho. Don't ask me what state Idaho is in––news flash––Idaho IS a state. ~Michael Vey

The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

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

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

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

We humans are born egocentric. The sky thunders and children believe that God is mad at them for something they've done - parents divorce and children believe it's their fault for not being good enough. Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth. Still, some people cling to this childish mind-set. As painful as their self-flagellation may be, they'd rather believe their crises are their fault so they can believe they have control. In doing so they make fools and false gods of themselves.