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Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

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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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Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.
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The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.
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When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.
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Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.
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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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The depth of love is revealed in its departure.
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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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Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.
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A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity
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Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
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Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired effect. In other words, once we decide to have something, the mind unconsciously begins to create the reality necessary to bring to pass what we desire.
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Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.
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The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.
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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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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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. . .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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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 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 so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.
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