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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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I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).
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Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.
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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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It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.
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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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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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Procrastinatio n is the thief of dreams
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. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.
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. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.
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You should always be careful of what you say in parting.
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There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives
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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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...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.
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I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.
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The depth of love is revealed in its departure.
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When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.
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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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Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.
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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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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.
Richard Paul Evans