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“I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thing
of starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and time
to 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 sheds
its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion–one of loyalty
and 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 and
time–while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to
find the next real thing.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Letter

“Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

“Life's greatest philosophy is not handed down in stoic texts and dusty tomes, but lived, in each breath and act of human compassion. For love has always demanded sacrifice, and no greater love is there than that for which our lives are traded. And in this great cause of spiritual evolution we are all called to be martyrs, to die each of us, in the quest of a higher realm and loftier ideals, that we may know God. And what if there is nothing else? What if all life ends in the silent void of death? Then is it all in vain? I think not, for love, for the sake of love, will always be enough. And if our lives are but a single flash in the dark hollow of eternity, then if, but for the briefest of moments, we shine - then how brilliantly our light has burned. And as starlight knows no boundary of space or time, so too, our illumination will shine forth throughout all eternity, for darkness has no power to quell such light. And this is a lesson we must all learn and take to heart - that all light is eternal and all love is light. And it must forever be so.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Letter

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

“There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Gift

“Everyone has suffered more than you know.”
― Richard Paul Evans, A Step of Faith

“In most cases, true greatness is a silent and lonely affair, unaccompanied by the trumpeted fanfare of acclaim.”
― Richard Paul Evans

“It's been my experience that those with the toughest shells have the softest hearts”
― Richard Paul Evans

“But a mother cannot give birth to a child and not lose a piece of herself. The child takes a part of the parent with them, holding it as their own. Whether it be their heart or soul, they are now connected for always.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”
― Scott Westerfield

“If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”
― Amy Tan

“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
― Coco Chanel

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”
― Albert Einstein

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
― Mother Teresa

“The word we. We are not one people but many different people. How can one person speak for this great, beautiful race--which is not one race but many, with a million desires and hopes and wished for ourselves and our children?”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“Listen. The world doesn't need any more babies. What is needs are women who don't spend all their time beating themselves up over shit they don't control.”
― Jennifer Vandever, American Tango

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves