Miles to Go Quotes

“Some people in this world have stopped looking for beauty, then wonder why their lives are so ugly. Don't be like them. The ability to appreciate beauty is of God. Especially in one another. Look for beauty in everyone you meet, and you'll find it. Everyone carries divinity within them. And everyone we meet has something to impart.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“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

“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, Miles to Go

“I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“We can only lose what we have first claimed.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we are born to reach great heights”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“We are all in motion, always. Those who are not climbing towards something are descending toward nothing.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“The sum of the day was truly greater than its parts.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“I hope you can someday forgive me.'
'I forgive you now.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours. Alan Christoffersen’s diary”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“In college I took a social psychology course, something I thought useful for a career in advertising. Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good. Apparently, Angel does.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“The sun will rise again. The only uncertainty is whether or not we will rise to greet it.
Alan Christensen's diary”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don’t just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“There’s no problem so big that whining won’t make it worse.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“For there are moments in all our lives, great and small, that we must trudge alone our forlorn roads into infinite wilderness, to endure our midnight hours of pain and sorrow--- the Gethsemane moments, when we are on our knees or backs, crying out to a universe that seems to have abandoned us. These are the greatest of moments, where we show our souls. Thee are our "finest hours." That these moments are given to us is neither accidental not cruel. Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we were born to reach great heights.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go

“Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Miles to Go