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

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Richard Paul Evans
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
Author
Novelist
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Even
Laced
Nightmares
Nightmare
Dawn
Promise

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Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.
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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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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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It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.
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I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).
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So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.
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Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.
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It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.
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When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.
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. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.
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The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.
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In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.
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Wait and see is no easier now than it was as a child.
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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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There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives
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The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.
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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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Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
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The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.
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The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.
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