Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

The universe is a trillion, trillion threads moving in seemingly unrelated directions. Yet when you look at them together, they create a remarkable tapestry.

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.

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

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

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

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

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

Some people in this world have stopped looking for beauty, then wonder why their lives are so ugly. Don't be like them. The ability to appreciate beauty is of God. Especially in one another. Look for beauty in everyone you meet, and you'll find it. Everyone carries divinity within them. And everyone we meet has something to impart.

If you remember the why, the how will work itself out.

I love to sleep. It's like being dead without the commitment.

Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.

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.

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

We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.

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

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

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

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

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

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

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

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

Only those who never step, never stumble.