Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness — sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

it's best we not keep all our eggs in one basket.

Hating those boys didn't do anything to the boys, just to me. So I pushed them and all my hate from my heart. Once I did that, God came back in.

We fear jumping because we fear falling. We fear being broken. But still, jump we must, because it's only in jumping that we'll ever find someone to catch us.

I believe that, for the most part, we don't succeed in spite of our hardships but precisely because of them.

Because even that little boy knows that love can't be earned. The only true love is grace. All else is a counterfeit.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

That's the price of love," I said. "The risk of losing it. But it's worth the risk.

Love yourself. Respect yourself. And have faith. The older I get, the more I see that things tend to work out. Not always, but usually. Just not in our time.

One cannot understand the power of grace until one has needed it. Or given it.

the only thing above average is the cow-to-human ratio.

It's like they say, holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.