Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

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

When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.

...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

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

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

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

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

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

If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

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.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

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

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

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

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

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

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

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.

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

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.