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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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Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.
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Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.
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Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.
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I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?
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We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.
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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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Old friends are memories personified.
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...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.
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That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.
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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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In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.
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We love those whom we serve (p. 26)
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To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.
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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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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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...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.
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Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.
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