Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

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. Alan Christoffersen's diary

All women like chocolate, it's like female catnip.

You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure-or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that's where you will find success.

Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?

Elgen can twist the truth all they want, but they can't change

Taylor, McKenna, Abigail, and Taylor simultaneously crouched over in pain.

For the third time since I began, my walk has been delayed. 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. No matter how much I, or the rest of humanity wishes otherwise, life is not lived in smooth, downhill expressways, but in the obscure, perilous trails and rocky back roads of life where we stumble and feel our way through the fog of the unknown.

The sun will rise again. The only uncertainty is whether or not we will rise to greet it. Alan Christensen's diary

We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.

That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be

Their life is a lie. I would rather live an honest life than an admired lie.

Ostin, quit calling us mutants

most people don't want truth. They want confirmation.

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.

I can't use these things," McKenna said, setting down her chopsticks. "Can I have a fork?" Ben's brow furrowed. "But you are Chinese." "Only my genes," McKenna said. Ben looked at her pants. "Your jeans are from China?" McKenna shook her head. "Never mind.

Is that it?" Jack asked. "No. That is the Xing zheng yuan Hui an Xun fang Shu." "I was just going to say that," Tessa said.

In most cases, true greatness is a silent and lonely affair, unaccompanied by the trumpeted fanfare of acclaim.

everyone has, to some degree, a subconscious belief in their own worthlessness. Narcissists have the same feelings, but instead of acknowledging them, they cover them up with a delusional denial of all wrongdoing.

In the end, it is not by knowledge that we make our journeys but by hope and faith: hope that our walk will be worthy of our steps and faith that we are going somewhere. And only when we come to the end of our journeys do we truly understand that every step of the way we were walking on water.

I've found that when someone is beautiful on the outside, but spiritually dark inside, all that outer beauty is just lipstick on a pig. ~Zeke

To the thief, everyone's a crook. To the liar, everyone's a fraud. The curse of all sin is the mirror of false perception it traps us in.

If a problem has a solution, to worry is no use, for in the end it will be solved. If a problem has no solution, there is no reason to worry, because it cannot be solved.

We all have a road to walk. The foolish walk blindly. The intelligent navigate it. The good repair it as they go. CHARLES JAMES'S DIARY

Life is a house of cards, balanced on a tetter-totter, precariously perched on a roller coaster. The only thing that should surprise us about our surprises is that we are surprised by them. Beth Cardall's Diary