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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 the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.
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To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.
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It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.
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Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.
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Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.
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Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.
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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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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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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 more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.
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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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The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.
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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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Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent. Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.
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Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.
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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.
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I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.
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Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.
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such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour
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When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.
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