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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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The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.
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Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.
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Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.
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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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Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.
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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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In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.
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Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.
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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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We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.
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The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.
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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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Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.
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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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I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?
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There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives
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Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.
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Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
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Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.
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