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The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

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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The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.
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The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.
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In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.
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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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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.)
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But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.
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Everyone has problems. It's how you choose to deal with them. Some people choose to be whiners some choose to be winners. Some choose to be victims some choose to be victors.
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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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It's been said that every new beginning in some other beginning's end.
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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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We love those whom we serve (p. 26)
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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 deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.
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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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From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.
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When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.
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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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