01c. 1962 ADI 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.Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
02c. 1962 ADI've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
04c. 1962 ADFeelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cageRichard Paul Evans / quote ↗
05c. 1962 ADBelieve. 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.Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
06c. 1962 ADEveryone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
07c. 1962 ADThere'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 / quote ↗
08c. 1962 ADIt 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.Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
09c. 1962 ADThe pages continue to turn, and every day I'm 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 hadn't 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.Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
10c. 1962 ADIn the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
11c. 1962 ADMr. 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. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
12c. 1962 ADI love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others...Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
14c. 1962 ADActually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means the danger we fear doesn't 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 didn't matter that the snake couldn't have bitten me through the car. It didn't matter that the snake probably wasn't even poisonous or might have even already been dead. It didn't 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 doesn't listen to reason. It takes its own counsel.Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
15c. 1962 ADSometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
16c. 1962 ADIt is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk - Chapter 19, Page 122Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
17c. 1962 ADThere are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
19c. 1962 ADThere are dreams that are meant to be shared and dreams to be kept hidden in our hearts. It's sometimes difficult to know which is which.Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
20c. 1962 ADThe changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
21c. 1962 ADI don't get that, I mean, what's power? Let's say he suddenly becomes king of the world. What is he going to do with it that he can't do now? Is his food going to taste better? Is the weather going to be nicer? Will love feel better? I just don't understand that mentality.Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
22c. 1962 ADDance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
23c. 1962 ADIt'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 / quote ↗
24c. 1962 ADI am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to myself.Richard Paul Evans / quote ↗
