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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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It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbor such hopelessness.
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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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...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.
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Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.
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We love those whom we serve (p. 26)
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Procrastinatio n is the thief of dreams
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I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.
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It's been said that every new beginning in some other beginning's end.
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I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.
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Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.
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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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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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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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The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.
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Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail
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Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.
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But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.
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We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.
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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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Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.
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