Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

As long as you remember the whys, the hows will take care of themselves.

I've always believed that we don't choose the life we want, we choose the life we think we deserve. We self-sabotage as a way to punish ourselves." "Why would we punish ourselves? Doesn't the world punish us enough?" "Why wouldn't we? We live in a world that is always making us work for love. It's cause and effect.

The sum of the day was truly greater than its parts.

I'm glad I have you for my boyfriend." "Me too," I said. "Sometimes I have to pinch myself." She pinched my arm and smiled. "You're so cute.

It is not the ability to walk that pleases God, it is the desire to walk. The desire to do the right thing. The truest measure of a man is what he desires. The measure of that desire is seen in the actions that follow.

Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't—oppose the popular voice.

I'm no one important or famous, no matter. It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number. I have loved and been loved as deeply as a man can hope for. Which makes me a lucky man. It also means that I have suffered. Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

Knowing your self-worth isn't something others can validate. You either believe it or you don't.

I am grateful for the Christmases of my life

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

We need to get the information out of Grace, Hey Mitchell, do you have a computer.- Michael Like six of them- Mitchell We need your most powerful one. We've got to upload Grace.- Michael What's grace- Mitchell I'm Grace- Grace I don't get it. Will someone please tell me what's going on?- Mitchell They're uploading me. -Grace I'm so confused -Mitchell

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

And if our lives are but a single flash in the dark hollow of eternity, then if, but for the briefest of moments, we shine - then how brilliantly our light has burned. And as starlight knows no boundary of space or time, so too, our illumination will shine forth throughout all eternity, for darkness has no power to quell such light. And this is a lesson we must all learn and take to heart - that all light is eternal and all love is light. And it must forever be so.

I hope you can someday forgive me.' 'I forgive you now.

Sometimes life is like that...Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.

My mother always said that if you do the right thing, the universe comes to your aid

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

Did you know that rats can't vomit?" "Okay, enough. No more rat trivia.

The past makes a good bishop but a poor king....it's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promise.

To truly live is more than taking the next breath---it's to hope and dream and love.

holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

Nothing is more excruciating than waiting for the jury's verdict. Except, perhaps, hearing the jury's verdict.

The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn't work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It's like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won't work. That's why so many people get lost.

Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.