Richard Paul Evans Quotes - Page 4

Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?

There can be no joy without gratitude.

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.

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

Only those who never step, never stumble.

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

I have Tourettes syndrome.

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

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

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

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

Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired effect. In other words, once we decide to have something, the mind unconsciously begins to create the reality necessary to bring to pass what we desire.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.