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Old friends are memories personified.

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Richard Paul Evans
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Novelist
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Salt Lake City
Utah
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The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.
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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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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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People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.
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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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Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
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To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.
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The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.
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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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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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Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.
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It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.
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Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.
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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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The depth of love is revealed in its departure.
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If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?
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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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Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.
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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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Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.
Richard Paul Evans