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I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

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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In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.
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Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.
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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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So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.
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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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As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.
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I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.
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To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.
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Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.
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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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I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).
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There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.
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Old friends are memories personified.
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