Top 250 Richard Paul Evans Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Nothing heals the soul like chocolate,” she said. “I just love chocolate. It’s God’s apology for broccoli.”

— Richard Paul Evans

52. “We are chained to that which we do not forgive.”

— Richard Paul Evans

53. “Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired effect. In other words, once we decide to have something, the mind unconsciously begins to create the reality necessary to bring to pass what we desire.”

— Richard Paul Evans

54. “If a problem has a solution, to worry is no use, for in the end it will be solved. If a problem has no solution, there is no reason to worry, because it cannot be solved.”

— Richard Paul Evans

55. “I don’t know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.”

— Richard Paul Evans

56. “My mom used to say that faith and fear can’t exist simultaneously in the mind any more than light and dark can exist simultaneously in the same room.”

— Richard Paul Evans

57. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. –.”

— Richard Paul Evans

58. “So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.”

— Richard Paul Evans

59. “When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.”

— Richard Paul Evans

60. “The first step of a journey is always the longest.”

— Richard Paul Evans

61. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

64. “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

65. “It’s been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.”

— Richard Paul Evans

66. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

69. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

73. “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

74. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

76. “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

77. “We don’t appreciate the things that come easy to us as much as we do the things we have to work for. I think that’s true for love as well.”

— Richard Paul Evans

78. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

81. “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

82. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

85. “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

86. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

88. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

95. “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

96. “I’m a humble guy, okay?”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

98. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans