Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven't time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else's story, we come to understand our own.

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.

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

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.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

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

The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

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

One need not fight every battle, or die in the struggle, to be a hero.

Nothing heals the soul like chocolate," she said. "I just love chocolate. It's God's apology for broccoli.

The law of centrifugal force seems to be as true for the human condition as it is for the Newtonian mechanics. The faster our lives spin, the more things tend to fly apart.

I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

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

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.