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“We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

“Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Walk

“Love is never convenient-and rarely painless”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

“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.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Looking Glass

“Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Finding Noel

“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, The Christmas List

“Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Letter

“The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Walk

“It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.”
― Richard Paul Evans

“...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.”
― Richard Paul Evans

“sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having”
― Richard Paul Evans, Finding Noel

“Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. (pg. 161)”
― Richard Paul Evans, Promise Me

“So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Carousel

“The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Walk

“Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Gift

“Regret is the most tiresome of companions.”
― Richard Paul Evans

“The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Walk

“such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

“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

“Only those who never step, never stumble.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Lost December

“There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go