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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.
Richard Paul Evans
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Richard Paul Evans
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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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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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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Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
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Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.
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When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.
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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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Old friends are memories personified.
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That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.
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The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.
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I'm a humble guy, okay?
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I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.
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I've wondered why the famous congregate with each other. Perhaps it's to assure each other that they really are as important as they think they are.
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Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.
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I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.
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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
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. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.
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There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.
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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.
Richard Paul Evans
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
