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Richard Paul Evans
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Salt Lake City
Utah
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Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.
Richard Paul Evans
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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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I have Tourettes syndrome.
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The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.
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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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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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We are chained to that which we do not forgive
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Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail
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We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.
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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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So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.
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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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Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.
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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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Wait and see is no easier now than it was as a child.
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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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In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.
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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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The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.
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Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.
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