Quotes by Richard Paul Evans

I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thingof starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and timeto fully bloom, and, as such, seen best not in its callow youth but in its wrinkled maturity.Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process shedsits fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion–one of loyaltyand divine friendship. Agape. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity,it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth andtime–while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off tofind the next real thing.

Ive come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.

Chocolate is Gods apology for brocolli

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until weve opened their cage

Believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow shot from His own bow. It is the single universal trait that the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips.Believe as if your life depended on it... for indeed it does.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

Theres a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday theyll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasnt someone. And it wasnt something better.

It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.

The pages continue to turn, and every day Im a little older, hopefully a little wiser and a lot more grateful. Do I have regrets? I have a few - but not as many as you might think. If it hadnt been for the darkness, I never would have known the light. In life we all take different paths, some more difficult than others, but in the end, all that matters is whether or not they lead us home.

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

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. Thats like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.

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

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

Actually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means the danger we fear doesnt need to be rational or even real to be potent. Like my fear of snakes. When I was eighteen I drove my car off the highway into a ditch because there was a snake on the road. It didnt matter that the snake couldnt have bitten me through the car. It didnt matter that the snake probably wasnt even poisonous or might have even already been dead. It didnt even matter than swerving off the road at fifty miles per hour posed a much greater danger than the snake I was frightened of. Fear doesnt listen to reason. It takes its own counsel.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk - Chapter 19, Page 122

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

Without dreams, life is a desert.

There are dreams that are meant to be shared and dreams to be kept hidden in our hearts. Its sometimes difficult to know which is which.

The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.