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

Richard Paul Evans

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Richard Paul Evans
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Salt Lake City
Utah
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When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.
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Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.
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I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.
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The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.
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Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
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There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.
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Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.
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To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.
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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.
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It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons.
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Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.
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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.
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Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.
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We love those whom we serve (p. 26)
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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
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We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.
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Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.
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Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.
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