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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
Amateurs
Paint
Warrants
Focus
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Mistake
Miraculous
Beauty
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Gratitude
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We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.
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What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
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To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.
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Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.
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When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.
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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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In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.
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Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.
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Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.
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Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?
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Wait and see is no easier now than it was as a child.
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I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.
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Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.
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Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.
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The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.
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Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.
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Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.
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