Top 250 Richard Paul Evans Quotes (2023 Update)
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51. “I don’t know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.”

— Richard Paul Evans

52. “To forgive is to unlock the cage of another’s folly to set ourselves free.”

— Richard Paul Evans

53. “The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.”

— Richard Paul Evans

54. “Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.”

— Richard Paul Evans

55. “I’ve learned that the greatest threat to love is not circumstance but the absence of attentions. For we do not neglect others because we have ceased to love; rather we ceased to love others because we have neglected them. I’ve learned that each day is a miracle unearned. I’ve learned that while life is ephemeral-a vapor- LOVE is not. In short, I have learned what matters and what does not.”

— Richard Paul Evans

56. “We always assume that there’s tomorrow to make things right. Maybe that’s why the Bible says to not procrastinate your day of repentance.”

— Richard Paul Evans

57. “Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we’ve opened their cage.”

— Richard Paul Evans

58. “The depth of love is revealed in its departure.”

— Richard Paul Evans

59. “Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.”

— Richard Paul Evans

60. “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.”

— Richard Paul Evans

61. “People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.”

— Richard Paul Evans

62. “If love is our reason we may veer off course sometimes, but we’ll never be lost.”

— Richard Paul Evans

63. “There’s a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they’ll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn’t someone. And it wasn’t something better.”

— Richard Paul Evans

64. “Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.”

— Richard Paul Evans

65. “As you grow older, Michael, you’ll learn an important lesson – that most people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time.”

— Richard Paul Evans

66. “We can deny reality, but we can’t deny the consequences of denying reality.”

— Richard Paul Evans

67. “That which doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger,” Mike said. “Except bears. Bears will kill you.”

— Richard Paul Evans

68. “Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don’t deserve it. That’s what makes it love.”

— Richard Paul Evans

69. “Where is the best place to hide a penny? It is in a jar of pennies.”

— Richard Paul Evans

70. “I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.”

— Richard Paul Evans

71. “Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.”

— Richard Paul Evans

72. “I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others...”

— Richard Paul Evans

73. “Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.”

— Richard Paul Evans

74. “To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we’re walking.”

— Richard Paul Evans

75. “Hatch never forgives and he never forgets,” Zeus said. “He’s like an elephant with anger management issues.”

— Richard Paul Evans

76. “Your a skid-mark on the underwear of humanity. -Ostin Liss.”

— Richard Paul Evans

77. “Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.”

— Richard Paul Evans

78. “The first gift of Christmas was love. A parent’s love. Pure as the first snows of Christmas. For God so loved His children that He sent His son, that someday we might return to Him.”

— Richard Paul Evans

79. “Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.”

— Richard Paul Evans

80. “Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.”

— Richard Paul Evans

81. “It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.”

— Richard Paul Evans

82. “As long as you remember the whys, the hows will take care of themselves.”

— Richard Paul Evans

83. “I’m a humble guy, okay?”

— Richard Paul Evans

84. “To the thief, everyone’s a crook. To the liar, everyone’s a fraud. The curse of all sin is the mirror of false perception it traps us in.”

— Richard Paul Evans

85. “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.”

— Richard Paul Evans

86. “People aren’t wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.”

— Richard Paul Evans

87. “The more I study history the more I realize how little mankind has changed. There are no new scripts, just different actors.”

— Richard Paul Evans

88. “Nothing heals the soul like chocolate,” she said. “I just love chocolate. It’s God’s apology for broccoli.”

— Richard Paul Evans

89. “Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?”

— Richard Paul Evans

90. “Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.”

— Richard Paul Evans

91. “Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.”

— Richard Paul Evans

92. “One need not fight every battle, or die in the struggle, to be a hero.”

— Richard Paul Evans

93. “In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.”

— Richard Paul Evans

94. “If you love only those who give you happy news, you will never love those worthy of your trust. For those who love you will speak truth, and truth is not always happy, but it is always a blessing.”

— Richard Paul Evans

95. “I don’t want to go to Peru. “How do you know? You’ve never been there.” I’ve never been to hell either and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to go there.”

— Richard Paul Evans

96. “The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears.”

— Richard Paul Evans

97. “The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.”

— Richard Paul Evans

98. “Only those who never step, never stumble.”

— Richard Paul Evans

99. “There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives.”

— Richard Paul Evans

100. “Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.”

— Richard Paul Evans