Explore Quotes by Richard Paul Evans

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

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

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

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

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.

Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

There'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.

As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off. As he neared the edge of the roof he prayed, "Save me, Lord, and I'll go to church every Sunday, I'll give up drinking, I'll be the best man this city has ever known." As he finished his prayer, a nail snagged onto his overalls and saved him. The man looked up to the sky and shouted, "Never mind, God. I took care of it myself." How true of us.

Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

There are people I've yet to meet who are waiting for my path to intersect with theirs, so they can complete their own journeys. I don't know who or where they are, but I know for certain that they are waiting.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.

I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.

...the measure of life is revealed in the quality of our relationships: with God, our families, our fellow men." - A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans