Quote

...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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Much
Image

More quotes by Richard Paul Evans

Image
The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
Wait and see is no easier now than it was as a child.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
. . .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.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
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.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?
Richard Paul Evans
Image
When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
The depth of love is revealed in its departure.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?
Richard Paul Evans
Image
The strength of a friendship can be measured by the weight of the burden it's willing to share. (If you want to test this just ask someone to help you move.)
Richard Paul Evans
Image
In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
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
Richard Paul Evans
Image
Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent. Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
Old friends are memories personified.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.
Richard Paul Evans