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Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.

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Richard Paul Evans
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
Author
Novelist
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
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Hearts
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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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Love is never convenient-and rarely painless
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. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.
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It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.
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It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons.
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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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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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Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.
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To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.
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The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.
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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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What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
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The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.
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It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.
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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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You should always be careful of what you say in parting.
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The first step of a journey is always the longest.
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From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.
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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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