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...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.

Richard Paul Evans

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Richard Paul Evans
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
Author
Novelist
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Life
Picture
Paint
Amateurs
Focus
Warrants
Mistake
Emerges
Beauty
Miraculous
Chance
Mistakes
Learn
Gratitude
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Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.
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When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.
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Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
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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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It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.
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Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.
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Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.
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The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.
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People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.
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In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.
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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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Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.
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